Article 3MNT4 UK police train machine-learning model using Experian data that stereotypes people based on garden size, first names, and postal codes

UK police train machine-learning model using Experian data that stereotypes people based on garden size, first names, and postal codes

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Cory Doctorow
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The police in Durham, England bought a license to the "Mosiac" dataset from the credit bureau Experian, which includes data on 50,000,000 Britons, in order to train a machine learning system called HART ("Harm Assessment Risk Tool") that tries to predict whether someone will reoffend. (more")

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