Civil Rights, Big Data, and Our Algorithmic Future

By B. Fitzgerald. 2015

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European Union Regulations on Algorithmic Decision-Making and a "Right to Explanation" (2016, background): “…conference of actuaries, consultants from Deloitte explained that they can now “use thousands of ‘non-traditional’ third party data sources, such as consumer buying history, to predict a life insurance applicant’s health status with an accuracy comparable to a medical exam” (Robinson et al., 2014).”
Social Injustice in Surveillance Capitalism (2017, background): “A range of discriminatory practices are being conducted via algorithmic processing of personal data, including differential pricing by retailers, predatory lending to vulnerable groups, racial profiling, and higher life insurance rates for those suspected of having a disease (Rieke et al. 2015).”
The datafied child: The dataveillance of children and implications for their rights (2017, background): “As a growing number of critics are beginning to argue (Lyon and Bauman, 2013; Robinson et al., 2014; Rosenblat et al., 2014), people’s life chances and access to opportunities are increasingly becoming shaped by the types of social sorting afforded by dataveillance.”