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A genealogy of one of the most important datasets in AI.
As Big Data tools reshape health care, biased datasets and unaccountable algorithms threaten to further disempower patients.
Technologists must take responsibility for the toxic ideologies that our data sets and algorithms reflect.
A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services.
It's more important than ever.
"The suit stems from a 2018 university investigation during which the university searched the student ID card swipe data of [specific] students..." Compare to Arizona.
That camera shot of you panicking about a logic game on the LSAT? Still hanging out on the virtual proctor company’s servers, maybe even after you graduate from law school.
Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address.
After surviving far right violence in Charlottesville, Emily Gorcenski has tracked the Proud Boys and other extremist groups
"What are the costs of little or no governance, scrutiny and understanding of multiple health data initiatives when governments, academics, public sector organisations and businesses can avoid the normal controls and transparency?"
The rise of “zoombombing” is just the latest example of why developers need to plan for harmful misuses as much as potential costly bugs.
Facebook software engineer Ashok Chandwaney quit the company Tuesday to protest CEO Mark Zuckerberg's policies on hate speech and their impact on people of color. He is one of thousands of employees that have protested the company's decisions and one of several who have made their resignations public on the company's internal messaging system.
A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws