Digital welfare fraud detection and the Dutch SyRI judgment
Marvin van Bekkum and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
2020年，荷兰法院就一个名为Systeem Risico Indicatie（SyRI）的数字福利欺诈检测系统案件作出判决。法院裁定SyRI立法不合法，因为它不符合《欧洲人权公约》规定的隐私权。在本文中，我们分析了该判决及其影响。此裁决是法院因侵犯隐私权而宣布福利欺诈检测系统无效的首批判决之一。我们表明该判决的直接影响有限。该判决对自动化欺诈检测系统整体论述不多，因为它仅限于案件的具体情况。尽管如此，该判决仍然具有重要意义。该判决提醒政策制定者，欺诈检测必须以尊重数据保护原则和隐私权的方式进行。该判决还确认了在使用个人数据时透明度的重要性。
In 2020, a Dutch court passed judgment in a case about a digital welfare fraud detection system called Systeem Risico Indicatie (SyRI). The court ruled that the SyRI legislation is unlawful because it does not comply with the right to privacy under the European Convention of Human Rights. In this article we analyse the judgment and its implications. This ruling is one of first in which a court has invalidated a welfare fraud detection system for breaching the right to privacy. We show that the i...