Category: News Article
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The Apple Card Didn’t ‘See’ Gender—and That’s the Problem
Author: Will Knight; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2019. The following article touches on the idea of bias “proxies,” like address information as a proxy for race. It talks about how the Apple Card was offering…
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Bias Isn’t the Only Problem with Credit Scores—and No, AI Can’t Help
Author: Will Douglas Heaven; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how it is a known fact that biased algorithms affect automatic decision-making processes. To fix this problem, many researchers and…
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A Year Training People on Data Ethics
Author: Violeta Mezeklieva; Publisher: Open Data Institute; Publication Year: 2020. The following article is from the Open Data Institute and it highlights the experience that the author, Violeta Mezeklieva, has had over the past year…
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‘Millions of People’s Data is at Risk’ — Amazon Insiders Sound Alarm Over Security
Author: Vincent Manancourt; Publisher: Politico; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how last year, one European Union employee and 2 U.S. employees acted as whistleblowers on Amazon’s mishandling of customer data. For example, the…
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Downside of Fitness Trackers and Health Apps is Loss of Privacy
Author: Victoria J. Palmer; Publisher: The Conversation; Publication Year: 2016. The following article starts off with a bold statement to capture the audience, saying the public have now become the study subjects and the collection…
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Bias, Racism and Lies: Facing Up to the Unwanted Consequences of AI
AI Development, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Privacy, Facebook, International AI Regulation, Misinformation, TwitterAuthor: N/A; Publisher: United Nations News; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) development is especially problematic for countries where governments do not have the ability to effectively regulate consumer privacy…