| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Publikationsdato | 30 aug. 2023 |
| Status | Udgivet - 30 aug. 2023 |
| Udgivet eksternt | Ja |
| Begivenhed | 2023 Research Committee on Sociology of Law Meeting: Law, Society and Digital Pasts, Presents and Futures - Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sverige Varighed: 30 aug. 2023 → 1 sep. 2023 |
Konference
| Konference | 2023 Research Committee on Sociology of Law Meeting |
|---|---|
| Lokation | Lunds Universitet |
| Land/Område | Sverige |
| By | Lund |
| Periode | 30/08/2023 → 01/09/2023 |
Bibliografisk note
Titel og abstract i konferenceprogrammet:"Reconceptualizing welfare fraud automation and the expansion of datafied authority:
Public decries of the Dutch SyRI and the Australian RoboDebt systems have unmasked how public authorities overstep the bounds of privacy, data protection, consent, proportionality and more in the policing of welfare fraud. While the dynamics and implications of automated surveillance of welfare fraud have been inferred from publicly available documents (policies, reports, news articles, legal judgements, industry webpages) and framed via strong concepts like ‘instrumentarian power’, ‘neoliberal ideology’, and ‘socially destructive systems’, key academic questions left unanswered are how such transgressions are shunned and become normalized in the quotidian flow of ADM-mediated bureaucracy? What are the key mechanisms that drive socio-technical action beyond the realm of law?
In this presentation, we present our reflections on what we have learned so far from conducting cross-sited fieldwork at Payment Denmark (“Udbetaling Danmark”), an organization established in the backdrop of the financial crisis to economize and monitor welfare disbursements awarded nearly half the Danish population. Criticism of Payment Denmark has gained little public traction despite suggestions that Payment Denmark’s automated welfare surveillance goes beyond the infamous SyRI system that ended up bringing down the Dutch government (Geiger 2023) and indicators that its datafied authority is continuously expanding. In the presentation, we develop concepts to not only capture these everyday (il)legal dislocations within public platform-like organizations but moreover to try to shed light on the citizen implications of the emergence of a welfare state regime defined by interlocking digitalization and financialization of which Denmark is an extreme case."