A Spanish firm called Bismart has developed software that allows public agencies to predict the needs of dependent elderly people before an emergency occurs. The
The Danish government deployed algorithms for its centralized tax collection system EFI (short for Et Fælles Inddrivelsessystem or one shared collection system) (Algorithm Watch 2019).
While the US has witnessed many attempts to automate social benefits distribution, similar schemes have begun to gain popularity across Europe (Algorithm Watch 2019). Denmark
In Espoo, the second largest Finnish city, a software aimed at identifying risk factors associated with the need for social and medical services among children
Algorithms are often sold to communities with big promises, however, rarely do they entirely deliver. In France, a start-up claimed it could create a platform
‘Black boxes’ are algorithms that exist on Internet Service Provider (ISP) platforms that allow for intelligence communities to monitor internet traffic, often in order to
In February 2018, the CIA concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 US presidential election to help Donald Trump win the presidency. A Russian organization
Studies have identified a phenomenon called the search engine manipulation effect (SEME) which occurs when fraudulent or biased data that is made available online guides
As internet information platforms like Google and Facebook continue to grow in prominence and ubiquity, they have begun to replace traditional media intermediaries. Researcher Bozdag
While Facebook uses algorithms to automatically remove inappropriate content it also employs more than 15.000 employees to filter through user content (Sánchez and Sarabia 2019).
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