332. Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)

Published: April 6, 2024, 7:42 a.m.

b'We are joined by Ariel Bogle \\u2014 an investigative reporter with The Guardian Australia \\u2014 to discuss her new, big piece uncovering the Security Risk Rating Tool created by the private contractor Serco and used to control the lives of people in Australia\\u2019s immigration detention centres. We get into the broader context of these tools and then dig into the specifics of how they work, how they impact detainees, the way the transform subjective discretion into objective judgment, the vicious cycles designed into the tools such that everybody is always \\u201chigh risk,\\u201d and the troubles with investigating systems that are so opaque, secretive, and redacted to hell.\\n\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Revealed: the secret algorithm that controls the lives of Serco\\u2019s immigration detainees https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2024/mar/13/serco-australia-immigration-detention-network-srat-tool-risk-rating-ntwnfb- \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Ariel on Twitter https://twitter.com/arielbogle \\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)'