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Data & Society / Joan Donovan, Robyn Caplan, Jeanna Matthews, and Lauren Hanson / Apr 19, 2018
“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 can make decisions on the basis of protected attributes like race, income, or gender — even when those attributes are not referenced explicitly — because there are many effective proxies for the same information.”
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