No Refuge

What if banks were called upon to enforce laws passed by
authoritarian leaders against their political opponents?
Dystopian as it might sound, this is happening within the
European Union. Data brokers collect online accusatory
information from refugees and dissidents. Information that is
used by banks to assess their client’s risk profile. Should the
banks comply? Can they be trusted to make the right


Welcome back to False Positives, a podcast series by Agence
France Presse and Algorithm Watch - this is episode 3 - No
refuge.


CREDITS 


Host : Alex Cadier


Editing by Camille Kauffmann


Music is by Nicolas Vair


Reporting and research by Pablo Jimenez Arandia, Naiara Bellio,
Nicolas Kayser-Bril Yasir Gökce, Mayra Russo, Mathilde Saliou for
Algorithm Watch; Benoît Pelegrin, Burcin Gercek and Michaëla
Cancela-Kieffer for AFP.


Editors in chiefs: Naiara Bellio, for AlgorithmWatch and Michaëla
Cancela-Kieffer for Agence France-Presse. 


Translations : 


Natalie Handel, Joshua Melvin, Jean-Marc Mojon, Gregory Viscusi,
Chris Wright, Joseph Schmid, Phillip Hazlewood 


This podcast was based on a six month investigation conducted in
the framework of the AlgorithmWatch Algorithmic Accountability
Reporting fellowship. AlgorithmWatch is a non-profit organization
based in Berlin and Zurich that fights to ensure that use of
algorithms and Artificial Intelligence benefits the many, not
just the few. 


Agence France-Presse, a leading global news agency present in 150
countries, contributed with additional research and fact-checking
in the UK, France and Turkey, as well as the production of the
podcast. 


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