This study examines 51 Freedom of Information requests to reveal how the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions uses opaque data-driven fraud detection systems in welfare, highlighting the limited transparency, the role of journalists and charities in uncovering details, and inconsistencies in the department’s disclosures.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Creative Tech and Analytics for Good

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Data science for social good
• Machine learning analytics

Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Data science for social good