We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Data & Society / Joan Donovan, Robyn Caplan, Jeanna Matthews, and Lauren Hanson
/ Apr 19“Currently, there are few consumer or civil rights protections that limit the types of data used to build data profiles or that require the auditing of algorithmic decision-making, even though algorithmic systems can make decisions on the basis of protected attributes like race, income, or gender — even when those attributes are not referenced explicitly — because there are many effective proxies for the same information.” —
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algorithmic accountability,
algorithms
