[LINK] OT: Robodebt: The Definitive Case Study

[Tom Worthington]

On 14/9/24 08:29, Roger Clarke wrote:
> A case study on the Robodebt project, which has been in development 
> since 2018, was published earlier this week. ...
> https://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/4681/1481

Very timely and on-topic for Link, with Australian governments thinking 
up new ways to use tech. Prime examples of what might go wrong are the 
proposals for a federal digital ID and banning young people from social 
media.

Of course Robodebt was not very high tech and didn't go wrong, as it did 
what it aimed to do: victimize a group of people to gain votes and the 
outcome was foreseen. The 1978 episode of the dystopian TV show "1990" 
titled "Ordeal by Small Brown Envelope" depicted people driven to 
suicide by a government program of "Authorised Systematic Harassment": 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0501331/


-- 
Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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