As governments adopt third-party automated fraud-detection algorithms, researchers say the companies running the systems are overpaid and lack accountability (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

Morgan Meaker / Wired:
As governments adopt third-party automated fraud-detection algorithms, researchers say the companies running the systems are overpaid and lack accountability  —  When systems designed to catch welfare cheats go wrong, people find themselves trapped between secretive governments and even more opaque private companies.

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