Category: Legal & Policy

CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance

Consent, Data Approaches, Data Privacy, Data Standards, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous-Designed

Author: N/A; Publisher: The Global Indigenous Data Alliance; Publication Year: 2022. The following guidelines set out the minimum requirements for Indigenous-designed data approaches and standards, which can be generalized to all approaches and standards to…
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Technology and Public Purpose

Mentorship, Research Practices, Stakeholder Engagement, TAPP Project

Author: N/A; Publisher: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how biases and systems that routinely exclude and oppress have spread from the physical world into…
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Amazon Scholars Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth Discuss the Ethics of Machine Learning

Bias Elimination, COVID-19 Contact Tracing, Machine Learning

Author: Stephen Zorio; Publisher: Amazon: Science; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, panelists discuss the tradeoff between accuracy and privacy when dealing with sensitive situations and machine learning (ML) models. They provide a relevant…
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Data Science Meets Law

Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Lawyer

Author: Shlomi Hod, Karni Chagal-Feferkorn, Niva Elkin-Koren, Avigdor Gal; Publisher: Communications of the ACM; Publication Year: 2022. The following article explains ways that data science is meeting the legal space and how lawyers are being…
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Legal and Human Rights Issues of AI: Gaps, Challenges and Vulnerabilities

Accountability, Algorithmic Transparency, Contestability, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Discrimination, Intellectual Property, Legal Personhood, Unfairness

Author: Rowena Rodrigues; Publisher: Journal of Responsible Technology; Publication Year: 2020. The following article looks at how ethical issues such as algorithmic transparency, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, unfairness, bias and discrimination, lack of contestability, legal personhood issues,…
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Data Privacy Laws in 2022: What You Need to Know

Data Science, Privacy Laws

Author: Rick Buck; Publisher: Wirewheel; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how each and every year there are new privacy laws that may be put into place that we as users of exploring and…
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Critics Raise Alarm Over Big Tech’s Most Powerful Tools

Algorithms, Dark Patterns, Google, Reinforcement Learning

Author: Richard Water; Publisher: Financial Times; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how big tech companies are using “Dark Patterns” in order to nudge their userbase into certain patterns of behavior. In a “race…
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The Ethical Questions That Haunt Facial-Recognition Research

Algorithms, China, Consent, Facial Recognition Systems, Surveillance

Author: Richard Van Noorden; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, science journalist Richard Van Noorden discusses how facial recognition technology is being used for malicious purposes. The Chinese government has abused facial…
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The Crime Machine, Part I and Part II

CompStat, Crime Information

Author: Reply All; Publisher: Gimlet; Publication Year: 2018. The following podcast episodes focus on how police departments’ usage of CompStat went awry. CompStat was introduced by Jack Maple, a NYC transit cop, in the early…
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