The Swedish city of Trelleborg has turned to an automated decision-making system to allocate social benefits. The system checks and cross-checks benefit applications across various
The Spanish Public Employment Service (SEPE) utilizes an automated platform in order to determine unemployment benefits and distribute employment opportunities and job training to the
A French algorithmic admission tool ‘Parcoursup’ made headlines in 2018 when it denied many prospective students from French public universities (AlgorithmWatch 2019). Reports indicate that
The City of Los Angeles developed a Coordinated Entry System (CES) to allocate housing to homeless populations in 2013. CES is based on the effective
One of the first cases of algorithmic bias took place in the 1970s at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in the United Kingdom. Hoping to
Online dating has a racial bias problem. African Americans are 10 times more likely to contact white people on an online dating platform than vice
In 2014, a US regulator approved the use of ‘personalized pricing’, a technique where businesses set individualized prices for customers based on information that the
Facial recognition algorithms have proven their inefficacy when it comes to classifying people that are not white males. A study published by the MIT Media
The “S.A.R.I.” (Sistema Automatico di Riconoscimento Immagini), or Automated Image Recognition System, is an algorithmic facial recognition tool used by Italy’s national police force. The
A 2018-story concerning the arrest of an Albanian citizen in Slovenia illustrates the critical role that algorithms play in 21st Century border security. On November
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