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Spain's BOSCO app decides eligibility for the electricity 'bono social' subsidy; after Civio proved it wrongly denied eligible applicants and the government refused disclosure for 7 years, the Supreme Court ordered its source code opened in Sept 2025.
Since 2018, Spain's Ministry for Ecological Transition has used the BOSCO application to automatically verify whether applicants qualify for the 'bono social eléctrico', a subsidy protecting vulnerable consumers from electricity disconnection.
In 2019, the civic-tech foundation Civio demonstrated that BOSCO contained errors that wrongly denied the subsidy to people who met the legal requirements, and requested the source code under Spain's transparency law; the Ministry refused for seven years, citing intellectual-property and cybersecurity concerns. On 11 September 2025, Spain's Supreme Court (judgment 1119/2025) ruled that the constitutional right of access to public information takes precedence over claimed intellectual-property protections, ordering the administration to give Civio the BOSCO source code under safeguards (controlled environment, confidentiality duties, exclusion of personal data).
Legal commentators (Garrigues, Cuatrecasas) describe the ruling as Spain's foundational precedent for algorithmic transparency in public administration, though the source-code disclosure is limited to Civio under confidentiality duties rather than full public release, and no comprehensive post-ruling accuracy audit of BOSCO itself has yet been published.
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