Post AmnYuTiLJgsDdx4aIa by SchepBernard@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AmnSYNjaGnbx07jYwa by rms@mastodon.xyz
       2024-10-08T12:44:24Z
       
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       [1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/monitoring-uk-bank-accounts-for-benefits-would-be-huge-blow-to-privacyThe UK may be planning to use massive surveillance on people who receive government support, then use artificial intelligence to heuristically raise   suspicion of fraud or errors.  If this task is done "correctly" it will identify many cases that might involve fraud or error.  To separate the real fraud or error from the misidentified cases would require further  …
       
 (DIR) Post #AmnYuTiLJgsDdx4aIa by SchepBernard@mastodon.social
       2024-10-08T13:55:37Z
       
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       @rms we, the Dutch, have been there and done that. It's called the #toeslagenAffaire in which anonymus public servants trew 30.000 families under the bus with hughe fines causing job loss, divorce and children taken from the families, because their government ruled that an exotic name or double passport made them suspicious of fraude. Still they can't recover because the same anonymus public servants are still there to award their claims for restitution and compensation. https://www.overtoeslagen.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/02/27/eindrapport-parlementaire-enquetecommissie-fraudebeleid-en-dienstverlening-overhandigd-aan-tweede-kamer