Incident 405: Schufa Credit Scoring in Germany Reported for Unreliable and Imbalanced Scores
Description: Creditworthiness Schufa scores in Germany reportedly privileged older and female consumers, and people who changed addresses less frequently, and were unreliable depending on scoring version.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Schufa Holding AG developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed young men having credit scores , people scored on old scoring versions and people changing addresses frequently.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
405
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2018-11-28
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
