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Tax authorities also collect and have available very large amounts of personal data and generally have the power to request additional information from public and private entities. For example, in Spain, profiles are drawn in order to detect taxation fraud. Said profiles contain information provided by energy companies and banks as well as data extracted from online rental platforms and from other sources that allow the Spanish Taxation Agency to elaborate profiles that include information on citizens’ behaviour as well as their relationships with other natural and legal persons.169

Another form of predicting illicit activity is the one developed by algorithmic systems which are oriented to the detection of specific types of behaviours. For example, in Spain, the region of Valencia passed an Act170 in November of 2018 for the implementation of an automated system for the prevention of bad practices in public administration bodies. The main objective of this automated system is the early detection of corrupt practices in order to prevent the actual commission of criminal offences.171

Algorithms can also be used in order to fight discrimination. For example, the Ministry of Interior in Spain developed an algorithm that detects hate speech, although the objective is not as much felony detection as it is detecting where insults and violence in social media originate.172