Dutch responses to the DUO scandal miss the point: technical fixes won’t solve the fundamental problems of predictive optimisation

The DUO discrimination scandal, where more than 10.000 students were discriminated against, has led to multiple initiatives that aim to prevent this from happening again. None of these addresses the core problems of “predictive optimisation”.

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Racist Technology in Action: Dutch banks racially profile Muslims and Palestinian activists, alleging “terrorist activity”

In another example of racial profiling in the Netherlands, banks such as ING, Rabobank, and ABN Amro have subjected Muslims and Palestinian activists to intrusive, discriminatory checks based on allegations of “terrorist financing.”

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