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The COMPAS tool is widely used to assess a defendant’s risk of committing more crimes, but a new study puts its usefulness into perspective.
The following are remarks by Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd for her keynote at the 2017 Strata Data Conference in New York…
A whole chapter! With examples!
Patrons, Privacy, and Technology in the Library Becky Yoose b.yoose@gmail.com @yo_bj Seattle Tech Solidarity - 12/4/17 Good evening, everyone. Thank you all for inviting me over to talk to you tonight! This talk will go into some of the core tenets of librarianship, particularly intellectual free...
On #ra21, among other things.
Data protection laws are about controlling triangulation, not (just) direct privacy At the end of May 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in Europe. It cre…
As artificial intelligence reshapes law enforcement, healthcare, education and more, tech firms need to widen their data lens.
Data science is a valuable field, but one that carries great risk.
Apple has boasted of its use of a cutting-edge data science known as "differential privacy." Researchers say they're doing it wrong.
Discussions of predictive algorithms used by the police tend to assume the police are merely end users of big data. Accordingly, police departments are consumer
The Value-Added Model has done more to confuse and oppress than to motivate.
The world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. Advertisers wink conspiratorially and invite us to join them in seeing through all the bullshit — and take advantage of our lowered guard to bombard us with bullshit of the second order. The majority of administrative activity, whether in private business or the public sphere, seems to be little more than a sophisticated exercise in the combinatorial reassembly of bullshit.
Artificial intelligence is infiltrating our daily lives, with applications that curate your phone pics, manage your email, and translate text from any language into another. Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft are all heavily researching how to integrate AI into their major services. Soon you’ll likely interact…
Algorithms can dictate whether you get a mortgage or how much you pay for insurance. But sometimes they’re wrong – and sometimes they are designed to deceive
Quizzes have captivated people for decades, but their newfound popularity online makes them dangerous.
Personal information leaked in sensitive contexts can spark violence, discrimination, exclusionary policies. Yet my NGO shares confidential data freely
Courts, banks, and other institutions are using automated data analysis systems to make decisions about your life. Let’s not leave it up to the algorithm makers to decide whether they’re doing it appropriately.