ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool so it recommended detention for everyone

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: June 27, 2018 at 08:09:05 GMT+9
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool so it recommended detention for everyone
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> ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool so it recommended detention for everyone  
> https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/software-formalities.html
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> One of the more fascinating and horrible details in Reuters' thoroughly fascinating and horrible long-form report on 
> Trump's cruel border policies is this nugget: ICE hacked the risk-assessment tool it used to decide whom to imprison 
> so that it recommended that everyone should be detained.
>
> This gave ICE a kind of empirical facewash for its racist and inhumane policies: they could claim that the computer 
> forced them to imprison people by identifying them as high-risk. The policy let ICE triple its detention rate, 
> imprisoning 43,000 people.
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> https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/software-formalities.html



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