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> As governments move more and more towards digitization, and embrace machine learning, I expect similar stories might unfold - only it won't be with an opt in social media website.

It's already arrived, in the form of the Australian government's "Robodebt" scheme: 20,000 automated debt notices per week with minimal oversight [1]. The government denies it killed people, but there are claims that it did [2]. After several years a court eventually stopped the scheme and awarded about $2 billion in compensation, but by then a lot of lives had been ruined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/31/not-c...