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Dutch tax authority's fraud-risk algorithm wrongly accuses tens of thousands of families of childcare benefit fraud
The toeslagenaffaire: a self-learning risk model flagged parents, disproportionately of immigrant background, as fraudsters, forcing repayment of benefits and ruining lives, and ultimately brought down the Dutch government.
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