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Data & SocietyA Poverty Lawyer’s Guide to Fighting Automated Decision-Making Harms on Low-Income Communities Read moreSeptember 2020 -
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PointsD&S founder and president sings praise for Virginia Eubank's new book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. "This book should be mandatory for anyone who works in social service... Read on PointsJanuary 2018 -
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The New York TimesD&S resident Rebecca Wexler describes the flaws of an increasingly automated criminal justice system The root of the problem is that automated criminal justice technologies are largely privately owned and sold for profit... Read on The New York TimesJune 2017 -
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Data & SocietyD&S advisor Claudia Perlich discusses modeling, transparency, and machine learning in a new episode of the Partially Derivative podcast. “One pitfall I see is that it’s easy from a social science perspective to condemn all... Read on Data & SocietyJanuary 2017 -
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PointsD&S advisor Baratunde Thurston details his exploration of The Glass Room exhibit. "I want to see The Glass Room everywhere there is an Apple Store…And anyone founding or working for a tech company should have to prove th... Read on PointsDecember 2016 -
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Data & SocietyPredictive policing systems are increasingly used by law enforcement to try to prevent crime before it occurs. But what happens when these systems are trained using biased data? Machine learning algorithms ar... Read moreNovember 2016 -
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Real Life MagazineD&S researcher Josh Scannell wrote an extensive analysis of predictive policing algorithms, showing that, while they were not built to be racist, they mirror a racist system. Northpointe’s algorithms will always be racist,... Read on Real Life MagazineAugust 2016 -
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Data & SocietyPredictive policing refers to the use of analytical techniques to make statistical predictions about potential criminal activity. The basic underlying assumption of predictive policing is that crime is not randomly distributed ... Read moreOctober 2015