By Professor Ellen P. Goodman When the New York Times ran a huge story on Clearview AI (1/18/20) and how local police departments were using scraped social media data to conduct facial recognition, it was blockbuster news. That story drew on Muckrock’s database of records collected through FOIA requests of state and local governments related … Continue reading RIIPL Partnership on Public Algorithms – Already Making Change…
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Revealing Algorithmic Rankers
By Julia Stoyanovich (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University) and Ellen P. Goodman (Professor, Rutgers Law School). This post is derived from their recent Freedom to Tinker post. ProPublica’s story on “machine bias” in an algorithm used for sentencing defendants amplified calls to make algorithms more transparent and accountable. It has never been more … Continue reading Revealing Algorithmic Rankers…