Who gets the job interview. Who receives public benefits. Who is flagged as high risk. Increasingly, these outcomes are ...

Lealholm is a postcard village – the kind of thousand-year-old settlement with just a tea room, pub, provincial train station and a solitary Post Office to distinguish it from the rolling wilderness ...

Algorithmic accountability policies should prioritise meaningful public participation as a core policy goal, so that any deployment actually meets the needs of affected people and communities, ...

Democratic lawmakers have proposed a bill to address the algorithmic biases lurking under the surface of tech’s biggest platforms. The bill, known as the Algorithmic Accountability Act, was introduced ...

Governments are increasingly turning to automated systems to make decisions for criminal sentencing, medicare eligibility, and school placement. Public officials and companies tout gains in speed and ...

“Currently, there are few consumer or civil rights protections that limit the types of data used to build data profiles or that require the auditing of algorithmic decision-making, even though ...

“Algorithmic systems are being applied in institutional settings, which have issues of caste, race, etc., very deeply embedded. Not just the algorithm, but the entire system needs to be held ...