After the investigation of Worldwhich reveals that CAF’s anti-fraud algorithm discriminates against people with the lowest incomes and favors check of the most precarious, the president of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis (93) Stephane Troussel he decided to reply.
This Wednesday, December 6, he contacted the Rights Defender Claire Hedon, in order to denounce the discriminatory nature of this tool used by the National Family Allowance Fund (CNAF) to target its controls. So he worries about a “excessive targeting” of the inhabitants of his department, which is the poorest in France.
The associations denounce a “poorphobic” algorithm.
According to the elect, “certain categories of populations, already in difficulty, are particularly targetedwhich represents a double punishment which in my opinion is unacceptable”. Before continuing «it turns out that the criteria used by the algorithm have a clear discriminatory impact on the most vulnerable populations and that this is all the more important in an area that combines socio-economic difficulties such as the Seine-Saint-Denis»he wrote in a letter addressed to Claire Hédon.
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Because, according to the algorithm, it is precisely the most precarious who are most likely to commit fraud, and therefore to be subjected to checks. These beneficiaries are judged on specific criteria: having a child over the age of 12 in the household, declaring their resources for Disabled Adult Allowance (AAH) quarterly, being widowed, divorced or separated, having an income inferior at 942 euros per month for a single person.
Information collected by the algorithm thanks to personal data. “ It is clear that protected criteria are used in the algorithm, such as age, disability or family situation, and that this translates into more systematic targeting of the most vulnerable populations. », writes Stéphane Troussel in his letter.
Furthermore, several associations denounce this control policy. Like La Quadrature du Net, committed to the defense of digital freedoms, and ATD Quart Monde, which fights against poverty, they asked the organization to abandon its algorithm, considered “discriminatory and impoverished”Remember The world.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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