[ai_ja_nai]

> "An audit showed that the tax authorities focused on people with “a non-Western appearance,” while having Turkish or Moroccan nationality was a particular focus".

This has nothing to do with algorithms, mates. It had to do with how it wasn't tested and monitored. It appears that it was just rolled out live.

> "Fraud prediction and predictive policing based on profiling should just be banned"

And here are the usual luddists pandering on the confused using wrong arguments. Sigh.

[convexfunction]

It should've been (and almost surely was) some specific person's job to sign off on this thing being at least reasonable before deploying it, which they failed to do. Successfully redirecting attention from that specific person's failure to do their job (and their manager who failed to ensure they were doing their job, etc) to the abstract idea of Algorithms is some exceptional accountability judo.

[rocqua]

Our prime minister (Rutte) is known as 'teflon Rutte' because no real scandal seems to stick to him. The entire idea of dodging accountability seems to be present from the very top of government.