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"Schools are under relentless pressure to make ever greater use of technology."
There are growing discontinuities between the research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Some of the core commitmen
The Fair Credit Reporting Act was intended to protect privacy, but its provisions have not kept pace with the radical changes wrought by the information age.
Surveillance and public-benefits programs gather large amounts of information on low-income communities, feeding opaque algorithms that can be used to deny them opportunities.
Depending on how algorithms are trained, they could be significantly more accurate when identifying white faces than African American ones.
Technology leaders, academics and governments are talking about where AI goes next.
Job decisions, college admissions, health care decisions: All are now being fundamentally altered by your big data, and you might not even know.
In the near future, every archaeological artifact could be digitally connected to every other artifact.
"Ridiculously optimistic" machine learning algorithm is "completely bullshit," says expert.
The conceptual, practical, and ethical issues surrounding “big data” and data in general begin at the very moment of data collection…
Abstract “Big data blacklisting” is the process of categorizing individuals as administratively “guilty until proven innocent” by virtue of suspicious digital data and database screening results. Database screening and digital watchlisting systems are increasingly used to determine who can work, vote, fly, etc. In a big data world, through the deployment of these big data […]
In the waning months of the Bloomberg administration, I worked for a time in a New York City Hall data group within the Health and Human Services...
New report heralds mass data monitoring in higher education – but there are concerns about how much say students and staff will have
Hi everyone, I just came back from giving a keynote speech in Vancouver Canada, complete with pictures of baby animals. I am condensing the key concepts here. A couple of notes before we tackle tod…
Some local police departments scan social media, send drones aloft and monitor surveillance cameras.
Originally posted on DETROITography.com I am constantly thinking about how to make maps and data more focused on people, their stories, and the impacts that those numbers represent. It is a constan…