Trelleborg welfare management automation

Transparency and accountability 🙈

Researchers, journalists and other experts found themselves unable to access the system's data, code or model to assess its effectiveness or fairness, and freedom of information requests were summarily blocked on the grounds of trade secrecy.

Risks and harms 🛑

Trelleborg's automated welfare management system was accused of being unfair, resulting in citizens' loss of benefits and in job losses. 

Research, advocacy 🧮

• Anne Kaun; September 2020: Suing the Algorithm

• Anne Kaun, Lina Dencik; June 2020: Datafication and the Welfare State

• Agneta Ranerup, Helle Zinner Henriksen; October 2019: Value positions viewed through the lens of automated decision-making: The case of social services

News, commentary, analysis 🗞️

• https://algorithmwatch.org/en/trelleborg-sweden-algorithm/

• https://algorithmwatch.org/en/udbetaling-danmark/

• https://www.politico.eu/article/fck-the-algorithm-5-ways-algorithms-already-rule-our-lives/

• https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/administrative-automated-decision-making-what-about-the-right-to-an-effective-remedy/

• https://jplusplus.org/sv/blog/sa-granskade-vi-trelleborgs-robot/

• https://www.dagenssamhalle.se/nyhet/kansliga-uppgifter-spreds-kod-till-bistandsrobot-31911/

• https://www.dagenssamhalle.se/nyhet/trelleborg-anmaler-personuppgiftslacka-31956/

• https://www.journalisten.se/nyheter/hoppas-att-fler-kommer-granska-robotarna

• https://www.irpa.eu/quanta-automazione-il-welfare-state-puo-tollerare-per-non-smarrire-se-stesso/