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"Imagine there’s a secret rating that dictates where you sleep and whether you
are forced to wear handcuffs to a doctor’s appointment. And imagine that rating
is based on incorrect information or unfair assumptions about the type of
person you are.
In Australia’s immigration detention centres, each detainee is given security
risk ratings decided by an algorithm – but they’re not even told it exists.
Developed by Serco, the company tasked with running Australia’s immigration
detention network, the Security Risk Assessment Tool – or SRAT – is meant to
determine whether someone is low, medium, high or extreme risk for escape or
violence.
Immigration insiders, advocates and detainees have told Guardian Australia the
SRAT and similar tools used in Australia’s immigration system are “abusive”, “a
blunt instrument” and “unscientific”. Multiple government reports have found
that assessments can be littered with inaccuracies – with devastating
consequences.
“One of the biggest problems with these tools is that there’s a complete lack
of transparency … about how they work,” says Jathan Sadowski, a senior research
fellow at Monash University who studies the use of risk analysis systems."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
