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SyRI (Nederlandse staat)

ECHR / fundamental rights5 Feb 2020
The SyRI welfare-fraud risk system breaches Article 8 ECHR: insufficiently transparent and not proportionate. Use prohibited.
What to do: If you run automated risk-profiling on individuals, test it against fundamental-rights safeguards (proportionality, transparency); the court struck down SyRI for lacking them.
Legal status: Case law · Jurisdiction: Netherlands
Official source: District Court of The Hague ↗ · v5 Feb 2020
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