Udvalget for Digitalisering og It
Til:
Dato:
Digitaliseringsministeren
20. april 2023
Udvalget udbeder sig ministerens besvarelse af følgende spørgsmål:
DIU alm. del
Spørgsmål 45
Hvordan forholder ministeren sig til følgende afsnit i artiklen »How Denmark’s Welfare
State Became a Surveillance Nightmare« på www.wired.com den 7. marts 2023? Ministe-
ren bedes i besvarelsen forholde sig til, hvordan den danske anvendelse af nationalitet
adskiller sig fra den hollandske sag, som der nævnes i artiklen.
“The documents obtained by Lighthouse Reports and WIRED appear to show that Den-
mark’s system goes beyond the one that brought down the Dutch government. They
reveal how Denmark’s algorithms use variables like nationality, whose use has been
equated with ethnic profiling.
One of Denmark's fraud detection algorithms attempts to work out how someone might
be connected to a non-EU country. Heavily redacted documents show that, in order to
do this, the system tracks whether a welfare recipient or their “family relations” have ever
emigrated from Denmark. Two other variables record their nationality and whether they
have ever been a citizen of any country other than Denmark.
Jacobsen says that nationality is only one of many variables used by the algorithm, and
that a welfare recipient will not be flagged unless they live at a “suspicious address” and
the system isn’t able to find a connection to Denmark.”
https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-welfare-state-politics/
Spørgsmålet er stillet efter ønske fra Pelle Dragsted (EL).
Svar bedes sendt elektronisk til spørgeren på [email protected] og til [email protected].
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