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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