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The new four-bedroom house in Charlotte, North Carolina, was Crystal Marie and Eskias McDaniels’ personal American dream, the reason they had moved to this Southern town from pricey Los Angeles a few years ago.
Addressing the inequality baked into today’s algorithms requires excavation of technology’s layered history.
The digital divide has been present since the nationwide rollout of consumer Internet plans in the 1990s, but certain communities entered the Internet age in a position that would disadvantage them for years to come. These communities have fallen victim to a decades-old practice – redlining. In effect, it prevents countless Americans from having access…
A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services.
The company banned "cultural affinity" targeting in August
Google said it’s “working closely” with regulators who sued Facebook over same.
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The proposed rule radically reinterprets existing housing law to give landlords and mortgage lenders a recipe to discriminate by algorithm.
A report says one of the region's largest companies neglects large swaths of its own city.
The company’s system for targeting ads is under fire for gender and ethnic bias. In some cases, the cure could be worse than the disease.
Examining how power is wielded through data means participating in projects that wield it back. The projects we discuss in this chapter deal openly and explicitly with questions about power, and name the structural forces like sexism and racism that lead to power imbalances.
Legal experts believe Facebook profiling may run afoul of federal law on credit checks.
If higher education is to "save the web," we need to let students envision that something else is possible, and we need to enact those practices in cl
How the use of AI runs the risk of recreating the insurance industry's inequities of the previous century.
The social credit system being developed by China is more like America's tech-surveillance state than many would like to admit.
How an outlawed form of institutionalized discrimination is being quietly upgraded for the 21st century.