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Fonte : Algorithm Watch
Autore : By Martí Blancho
Spanish region Catalonia’s government approved the use of an Artificial Intelligence-based software to monitor inmates and interpret their behavior. Partially funded by the European Union, the system was to be implemented at the Mas d’Enric prison near Tarragona, a city south of Barcelona, and extended to other regional prisons. Ultimately, it wasn’t.
Eight months earlier, the justice department had launched a pilot project in the Mas d’Enric prison and allocated 200,000 euros to the French company Inetum that was supposed to supply the software. The illustrative timeline of the public tender stated that the training phase would start in October 2023. However, the project never reached that stage.
The regional Department of Justice (DOJ) claims that the project was in a “very preliminary planning phase” and “had not yet been implemented.” In fact, there was still “a data protection impact analysis” pending when the administration began the contract termination process, as briefly explained in response to our freedom of information (FOI) request.
The DOJ did not provide further details on the algorithmic models used, the databases to which they would have access, or the data that would have been used to create the risk profiles. The department justifies its refusal on the grounds that “the program has not yet been developed,” making it seem like the administration had only a rough idea of how it would work.