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Big data algorithms can discriminate, and it's not clear what to do about it

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imageIt's all just data – how can it be prejudiced?Trey Guinn, CC BY-NC-ND

“This program had absolutely nothing to do with race…but multi-variable equations.”

That’s what Brett Goldstein, a former policeman for the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and current Urban Science Fellow at the University of...

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