The Suspicion Machine

Post by CommitSyn » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 1:55 AM UTC

ImAnAmateur wrote: post #9

CommitSyn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I desperately want to read this article. Anyone else getting /constant/ cloudflare CAPTCHAS while trying to access archive.ph? Android with mobile Firefox or chrome, first with wifi then mobile then VPN. No matter what I can't access it and it won't stop showing the "are you a human?" check page, even after trying the CAPTCHA the first time it stops showing. Must be a cloudflare outage?

Have you tried reading the linked article? It's not behind a pay wall. It works for me even with javascript on. IMO, ghe article is only good for better understanding the abysmal failure of the Rotterdam, Netherlands 2017-2021 government benefits random audit program. The authors allege that they contacted other cities that set up something similar but don't name any. Related reading: https://www.wired.com/story/welf…

Yes I always try reading articles before coming to the comments for the archive link. This is paywalled. https://ibb.co/x8T9xSh

Thank you for the brief rundown, but that actually does interest me.

Post by Doxin » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 12:18 PM UTC

denton-scratch wrote: post #24

There's something schizophrenic about constructing a system for choosing who to investigate, while simultaneously trying to avoid discrimination. The entire purpose of the chooser system is to discriminate between people; they want to investigate only those people likely to be cheating. If they really want to avoid discrimination, then they chould be choosing who to investigate using a straw-poll. They have laws agai…

The problem there is that protected attributes can often be inferred from unprotected ones. The dutch tax authority got into hot water due to discriminating based on name. Names are not protected, but when you start marking people with foreign sounding names as likely frauds something has gone awry.

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