Tag: Automated Decision Systems
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Another try at regulating Automated Decision Systems in Washington state (UPDATED)
Originally published February 16, with a slightly different ending. “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 efficiency, and the hope that automated decisions can bring more fairness into bureaucratic processes. But the drawbacks are coming…
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Consent, Automated Systems, and Discrimination (FTC Comments)
Submitted to regulations.gov a couple of hours before last night’s deadline. An earlier version of points 2-4 appeared in the extended remix of my public comments in September. Thank you for your attention to the pressing issues of commercial surveillance and data security. As the author of the Nexus of Privacy Newsletter, I write about…
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White House Releases a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights”
“This is the Biden-Harris administration really saying that we need to work together, not only just across government, but across all sectors, to really put equity at the center and civil rights at the center of the ways that we make and use and govern technologies. We can and should expect better and demand better…
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Algorithmic Justice League audits the auditors (and why it matters from a privacy perspective)
“Algorithmic audits (or `AI audits’) are an increasingly popular mechanism for algorithmic accountability; however, they remain poorly defined. Without a clear understanding of audit practices, let alone widely used standards or regulatory guidance, claims that an AI product or system has been audited, whether by first-, second-, or third-party auditors, are difficult to verify and…