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Dato
05-07-2023
Foreløbigt svar på spørgsmål fra Pelle Dragsted (EL) stillet den 20. april 2023
Spørgsmål nr. 26:
”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? Ministe1ren 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 Re-
ports and WIRED appear to show that Den1mark’s
system
goes beyond the one that brought
down the Dutch government. They reveal how Denmark’s algorithms use variables like na-
tionality, whose use has been equated with ethnic profiling. One of Denmark's fraud detec-
tion 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 wel-
fare recipient or their “family relations” have ever emigrated from Denmark. Two other varia-
bles 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 algo-
rithm, and that a welfare recipient will not be flagged unless they live at a “suspicious ad-
dress” and the system isn’t able to find a connection to Denmark.”
https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-welfare-state-politics/””
Svar:
Besvarelsen forudsætter, at der indhentes bidrag fra Beskæftigelsesministeriet. Spørgsmålet
forventes endeligt besvaret inden medio september 2023.
Jeg skal beklage den sene besvarelse, hvilket beror på en intern ekspeditionsfejl i ministeriet.
Med venlig hilsen
Marie Bjerre