The Netherlands: the police quietly stop using CAS (the Crime Anticipation System), a country-wide predictive policing system.

‘Ten years ago, The Netherlands introduced a national police system that used data and algorithms to predict crime rates in neighbourhoods. It never worked properly, and warnings about bias had been raised for years.’

‘Politie stapte in stilte af van algoritme dat kans op misdaad in buurten zou voorspellen’

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/02/24/politie-stapte-in-stilte-af-van-algoritme-dat-kans-op-misdaad-in-buurten-zou-voorspellen-a4921336

#tech #law #ai #politics #facct

Politie stapte in stilte af van algoritme dat kans op misdaad in buurten zou voorspellen

Innovatie: Nederland kreeg tien jaar geleden een landelijk politiesysteem dat met data en algoritmen de kans op criminaliteit in wijken zou voorspellen. Het werkte nooit goed en al jaren werd gewaarschuwd voor vooringenomenheid.

NRC

New paper, open access.

‘If Deceptive Patterns are the problem, are Fair Patterns the solution?’

By Tim de Jonge, Hanna Schraffenberger, Jorrit Geels, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Marie-Sophie Simon & me.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715275.3732199

#law #tech #design #darkpatterns #facct #deceptivepatterns #manipulation #privacy

Looking forward to presenting our latest work during the Evaluating Data session on Thursday, June 26 at ACM FAccT in Athens! 🇬🇷
https://programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/program/session/197028

👋 Anybody here going to be at @FAccT #FAccT #FAccT2025? @DrVeronikaCH and I will be attending, would love to connect and discuss about data-centric approaches!

Conference Programs

How to use FaCCT (ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency) template for journals requiring use of #LaTeX templates

https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr#:Rr9ab:

Guidelines for the conference will link to the ACM proceedings guide, as #FaCCT is an Association for Computing Machinery #ACM conference.

GitHub - Zettlr/Zettlr: Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench. Contribute to Zettlr/Zettlr development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Organized with @DrVeronikaCH , Théo Sourget and Steff Groefsema. Website: https://medical-datasets.github.io/webinar/

The webinar will be hosted on Zoom, register here https://itucph.zoom.us/meeting/register/-koafnhwR9aR3uhBEPcfag

Looking forward to your participation in making this a great event! 😊

#MakingMetadataCount #FAccT #FAccT2025

Webinar | Datasets through the L👀king-Glass

Website for Datasets through the L👀king-Glass webinar

#MakingMetadataCount #FAccT2025 #FAccT

👩‍💻 If you're interested in learning more, I'll be presenting this work in our webinar series on May 12th at 10:00 CEST. Join us here https://medical-datasets.github.io/webinar/

Webinar | Datasets through the L👀king-Glass

Website for Datasets through the L👀king-Glass webinar

Tarleton stating the "Taxonomic Gesture" is a self referential 3 year old epistemic community of scholars & corporate researchers, published in ACM conference & Arxiv. Several nervous #FAccT progcom members in the #AlgoSoc2025 audience.... noting a taxonomy is not an #AIAct systemic risk response
Bluesky

Bluesky Social
Who do I know here who's going to #FAccT #FAccT2025 in Athens? #Fairness
Call for Papers, AIMMES 2025: AI fairness and bias Measurements, Mitigation, Explanation Strategies
https://ai-fairness-cluster.zohobackstage.com/AIFairnessClusterConference2025#/sponsors?lang=en
#law #computerscience #facct #bias #discrimination #ai #tech #academia
AI Fairness Cluster Inaugural Conference & AIMMES Workshop — 2nd Edition

The preprint of our #recsys2024 LBR paper on "Understanding Fairnesss in Recommender Systems: A Healthcare Perspective" is now available at https://alansaid.com/publications/2024-kecki-fairness/
#recsys #fairness #facct
Understanding Fairness Metrics in Recommender Systems: A Healthcare Perspective | Alan Said

Fairness in AI-driven decision-making systems has become a critical concern, especially when these systems directly affect human lives. This paper explores the public's comprehension of fairness in healthcare recommendations. We conducted a survey where participants selected from four fairness metrics -- Demographic Parity, Equal Accuracy, Equalized Odds, and Positive Predictive Value -- across different healthcare scenarios to assess their understanding of these concepts. Our findings reveal that fairness is a complex and often misunderstood concept, with a generally low level of public understanding regarding fairness metrics in recommender systems. This study highlights the need for enhanced information and education on algorithmic fairness to support informed decision-making in using these systems.

Alan Said