BREAKING🚨
Our new report exposes the hidden algorithms councils have been using to screen, monitor and profile people who receive benefits without their knowledge. ⬇️
These hidden algorithms “treat the poor with suspicion and prejudice".
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-578696…
Our new report exposes the hidden algorithms councils have been using to screen, monitor and profile people who receive benefits without their knowledge. ⬇️
These hidden algorithms “treat the poor with suspicion and prejudice".
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-578696…
Find all the details in our new report, ‘Poverty Panopticon: the hidden algorithms shaping Britain’s welfare state’ ⬇️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
🕵Our 9-month investigation has found that councils are conducting:
*mass profiling*
*citizen scoring*
of welfare and social care recipients to predict fraud, rent non-payments and major life events.
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/07/counci…
*mass profiling*
*citizen scoring*
of welfare and social care recipients to predict fraud, rent non-payments and major life events.
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/07/counci…
RISK-BASED VERIFICATION:
🟠540,000 benefits applicants are secretly assigned fraud risk scores by councils’ algorithms before they can access housing benefit or council tax support.
🟠Credit reference agency TransUnion maintains a National Register of Benefits Claimants
🟠540,000 benefits applicants are secretly assigned fraud risk scores by councils’ algorithms before they can access housing benefit or council tax support.
🟠Credit reference agency TransUnion maintains a National Register of Benefits Claimants
RENTSENSE
🟠Personal data from 1.6 million people living in social housing is processed by commercial algorithms to predict rent non-payers.
🟠Universal Credit recipients can be subjected to added scrutiny just because of the benefits they receive
🟠Personal data from 1.6 million people living in social housing is processed by commercial algorithms to predict rent non-payers.
🟠Universal Credit recipients can be subjected to added scrutiny just because of the benefits they receive
DWP HOUSING BENEFIT RISK SCORING
🟠Around 3 million housing benefit recipients are risk profiled by the Department for Work and Pensions
🟠Councils are forced to review the 400,000 most likely to have an error in their claim leading to a benefit cut
🟠Around 3 million housing benefit recipients are risk profiled by the Department for Work and Pensions
🟠Councils are forced to review the 400,000 most likely to have an error in their claim leading to a benefit cut
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
🟠250,000+ people’s data is processed by a range of secretive automated tools to predict if they’ll be abused, become homeless, be out of work or become involved in crime.
🟠Bristol's childhood predictive analytics database holds info on 170,000 people
🟠250,000+ people’s data is processed by a range of secretive automated tools to predict if they’ll be abused, become homeless, be out of work or become involved in crime.
🟠Bristol's childhood predictive analytics database holds info on 170,000 people
TELECARE
🟠#Amazon Echo Dot listening devices are being put in thousands of older people’s homes across the country *without any additional data protection*, meaning that #Alexa is sending huge amounts of data about these people to the shopping giant.
🟠#Amazon Echo Dot listening devices are being put in thousands of older people’s homes across the country *without any additional data protection*, meaning that #Alexa is sending huge amounts of data about these people to the shopping giant.
⚠️Yesterday The Guardian disclosed our findings on Xantura, going straight to the chief executive...
Serious questions are now being raised over whether the system breaks anti-discrimination laws.
theguardian.com/society/2021/j…
Serious questions are now being raised over whether the system breaks anti-discrimination laws.
theguardian.com/society/2021/j…
👁️“It’s the poorest in society who are being surveilled”: the quiet rise of citizen-scoring algorithms - @NewStatesman
newstatesman.com/science-tech/p…
newstatesman.com/science-tech/p…
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