Dave Farber
2018-06-27 00:05:55 UTC
Date: June 27, 2018 at 08:09:05 GMT+9
Subject: ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool so it recommended detention for everyone
ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool so it recommended detention for everyone https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/software-formalities.html
One of the more fascinating and horrible details in Reuters' thoroughly fascinating and horrible long-form report on Trump's cruel border policies is this nugget: ICE hacked the risk-assessment tool it used to decide whom to imprison so that it recommended that everyone should be detained.
This gave ICE a kind of empirical facewash for its racist and inhumane policies: they could claim that the computer forced them to imprison people by identifying them as high-risk. The policy let ICE triple its detention rate, imprisoning 43,000 people.
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https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/software-formalities.html
-------------------------------------------Subject: ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool so it recommended detention for everyone
ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool so it recommended detention for everyone https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/software-formalities.html
One of the more fascinating and horrible details in Reuters' thoroughly fascinating and horrible long-form report on Trump's cruel border policies is this nugget: ICE hacked the risk-assessment tool it used to decide whom to imprison so that it recommended that everyone should be detained.
This gave ICE a kind of empirical facewash for its racist and inhumane policies: they could claim that the computer forced them to imprison people by identifying them as high-risk. The policy let ICE triple its detention rate, imprisoning 43,000 people.
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https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/software-formalities.html
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