Data Ethics Repository

Tag: Economic Inequality

Algorithms Are Making Economic Inequality Worse

Algorithms, Economic Inequality, Gig Laborers, Surveillance, Worker Exploitation

Author: Mike Walsh; Publisher: Harvard Business Review; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how the algorithms we design can be used to exploit workers and create an underclass of gig laborers who have no…
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What Does it Mean to ‘Solve’ the Problem of Discrimination in Hiring? Social, Technical and Legal Perspectives from the UK on Automated Hiring Systems

Automated Hiring Systems, Bias Mitigation, Discrimination, Discriminatory Practices, Economic Inequality, Economic Justice, Hiring, Recruitment

Author: Javier Sánchez-Monedero, Lina Dencik, Lilian Edwards; Publisher: Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency; Publication Year: 2020. The following article describes how discriminatory practices in recruitment and hiring are a persistent problem that affects not…
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