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If you answered “Female” your risk score jumped again. You just became more likely to be flagged and investigated for welfare fraud. Rotterdam’s system isn’t alone: Algorithms that determine credit scoring and hiring practices have been found to discriminate, too. 6/10 https://t.co/WAFpzN8WDW — PolitiTweet.org

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If you answered that you have children, your risk score rose again. But isn’t this kind of discrimination illegal? While discrimination based on gender and ethnicity is illegal in many countries, converting that information into data points fed to an algorithm may not be. 7/10 https://t.co/K6YVhQSYJU — PolitiTweet.org