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Tag: Proxy Data

The Apple Card Didn’t ‘See’ Gender—and That’s the Problem

Apple, Bias Proxies, Gender Bias, Proxy Data, Proxy Discrimination, Racial Bias

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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Predictive Privacy: Towards an Applied Ethics of Data Analytics

Prediction Gap, Predictive Analytics, Predictive Privacy, Proxy Data

Author: Rainer Mühlhoff; Publisher: Ethics and Information Technology; Publication Year: 2021. The following paper focuses on predictive analytics (PA), where a model is used to predict the actions of a target individual/group based on large…
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