UN human rights and
poverty rapporteur Philip Alston has criticised the way the Netherlands
is using an automated system to identify social security fraud,
broadcaster NOS said on Tuesday.
Alston has said in a letter to a court in The Hague that the system goes
against human rights because it appears to discriminate against people
with little money and people with a minority background.
Campaigners are taking the Dutch state to court to force officials to
stop experimenting with the scheme, known as SyrRi after a trial in
Rotterdam was abandoned this summer.
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poverty rapporteur Philip Alston has criticised the way the Netherlands
is using an automated system to identify social security fraud,
broadcaster NOS said on Tuesday.
Alston has said in a letter to a court in The Hague that the system goes
against human rights because it appears to discriminate against people
with little money and people with a minority background.
Campaigners are taking the Dutch state to court to force officials to
stop experimenting with the scheme, known as SyrRi after a trial in
Rotterdam was abandoned this summer.
Read more at DutchNews.nl:
UN human rights and poverty rapporteur Philip Alston has criticised the way the Netherlands is using an automated system to identify social security fraud, broadcaster NOS said on Tuesday.
Alston has said in a letter to a court in The Hague that the system goes against human rights because it appears to discriminate against people with little money and people with a minority background.
Campaigners are taking the Dutch state to court to force officials to stop experimenting with the scheme, known as SyrRi after a trial in Rotterdam was abandoned this summer.
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