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Anti-fraud

Municipality of Utrecht

To properly combat fraud by residents in Work and Income services, we use the application of an algorithm as a source of information. This process is part of the Overvecht neighbourhood-focused intervention project (National Intervention Team Steering Group).

Last change on 12th of July 2024, at 9:00 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0
Publication category
Impactful algorithms
Impact assessment
DPIA, ...
Status
Out of use

General information

Theme

Social Security

Begin date

2021-01

End date

2022-03

Contact information

algoritmeregister@utrecht.nl

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Combating fraud by residents in services at Work and Income products

Considerations

Results Utrechts Uthiek Assessment With this approach, we encourage that fraud by residents at Work and Income services is properly combated. In doing so, we contribute to the value Power Relations, by fulfilling the municipality's enforcement role and preventing unlawful acts as much as possible. In this process, it was carefully chosen whether and which criteria are part of the data model. In doing so, it was specifically chosen to work only with criteria where there can be no possible discrimination and/or ethnic profiling in any way. In the application of the algorithm, there is no risk of privacy violation, because it does not work with personal data but with profiles of objects and the results are published at an aggregated level.

Human intervention

The algorithm (with a direct impact on Utrecht residents and their living environment) only serves as a source of information for an employee, who takes the appropriate next step based on this information and the context of the situation. This principle is included in our Utrecht framework Internal Guidelines for Algorithm Application.

Risk management

The Utrecht data scientists, Information and Process Advisors (IPA) and Decentralised Information Security Officers (DISO) within the Utrecht municipality have a controlling and monitoring role in the application of the algorithm, in addition to the employees directly involved. By doing so, we want to prevent the following risks from occurring:


- data leak by making personal data of Utrecht residents publicly available

- algorithm takes a decision completely independently, without the intervention of an employee and without interpreting the relevant context of the situation

- 'function creep' regarding data in the application of the algorithm, causing the algorithm to give a distorted picture of what is going on. This can occur because the same type of data is used when applying the algorithm, and the algorithm uses that as confirmation of what comes out as information

Impact assessment

  • Utrechts Uthiek Assessment
  • Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)

Operations

Data

Internal data from Work and Income, Public Services and Intelligence Bureau

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