Category: Social Justice
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How Overturning Roe v Wade has Eroded Privacy of Personal Data
Criminal Prosecution, Data Collection, Femtech, Flo, Meta, Personal Information, Private Data, Reproductive History, Roe v. WadeAuthor: David Cox; Publisher: The BMJ; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how earlier this year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 landmark case that legally established the right to abortion.…
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Moving Forward On Federal Data Privacy Legislation: Why Society Should Be Full Steam Ahead
Accountability, Apple, Federal Trade Commission, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Roe v. WadeAuthor: Daniel Barber; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2022. The following article considers: Why is the United States one of the only countries without a comprehensive data privacy law? Congressional gridlock and the initiative of smaller…
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Ethical Data Collection
Computational Statistics, Consent, Data Mining, Data Privacy, Experimental Statistics, Model Building, Transparency, Unethical Data CollectionAuthor: Crash Course; Publisher: ClassHook; Publication Year: N/A. The following video provides real-life examples from all different time periods and industries of unethical data collection, which is one of the largest pillars of data ethics.…
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Convention 108 and Protocol
Author: N/A; Publisher: Council of Europe; Publication Year: N/A. The following document was one of the first initiatives in data protection. It was open for signing in January 1981. The most crucial idea of the…
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7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail
Algorithmic Bias, Artificial Intelligence, Classification, Explainability, Model Brittleness, Model Failure, Neural Network Models, UncertaintyAuthor: Charles Q. Choi.; Publisher: IEEE Spectrum; Publication Year: 2021. The following article details 7 common flaws in AI models and many real-world examples of these failures. It touches particularly on neural network models, but…
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How Community Members in Ramsey County Stopped a Big-Data Plan from Flagging Students as At-Risk
Big Data, Child Welfare, Early Risk Factors, Juvenile Justice System, National Council on Crime and DeliquencyAuthor: Carrie Pomeroy; Publisher: Twin Cities Daily Planet; Publication Year: 2019. The following article describes how in Minnesota, community members disapproved of an initiative to share data relating to child welfare, education, the juvenile justice…
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Invisible Women
Author: Caroline Criado Perez; Publisher: Vintage Books; Publication Year: 2020. The following book shows us how bias exists in even the most innocuous of circumstances. In systems that are primarily designed for and by men,…
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Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews
Author: Ben Schmidt; Publisher: Ben Schmidt (Personal Website); Publication Year: 2015. The interactive visualization here allows users to input words to query 14 million Rate My Professor reviews and see the splits in occurrence for…
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Amazon Scrapped ‘Sexist AI’ Tool
Author: N/A; Publisher: BBC News; Publication Date: 2018. The following news article describes how an Amazon AI algorithm was trained on data submitted by amazon applicants which mainly came from men. This led to it…