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  • VentureBeat
  • 2020
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Researchers Find that Even Fair Hiring Algorithms Can Be Biased

A study on the engine of TaskRabbit, an app which uses an algorithm to recommend the best workers for a specific task, demonstrates that even algorithms which attempt to account for fairness and parity in representation can fail to provide what they promise depending on different contexts.

  • VentureBeat
  • 2020
  • 4 min
  • OneZero
  • 2020
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Dr. Timnit Gebru, Joy Buolamwini, Deborah Raji — an Enduring Sisterhood of Face Queens

A group of “Face Queens” (Dr. Timnit Gebru, Joy Buolamwini, and Deborah Raji) have joined forces to do important racial justice and equity work in the field of computer vision, struggling against racism in the industry to whistleblow against biased machine learning and computer vision technologies still deployed by companies like Amazon.

  • OneZero
  • 2020
  • 5 min
  • Business Insider
  • 2020
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One of Google’s leading AI researchers says she’s been fired in retaliation for an email to other employees

This article tells the story of Timnit Gebru, a Google employee who was fired after Google refused to take her research on machine learning and algorithmic bias into full account. She was terminated hastily after sending an email asking Google to meet certain research-based conditions. Gebru is a leading expert in the field of AI and bias.

  • Business Insider
  • 2020
  • 4 min
  • Reuters
  • 2020
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From hate speech to nudity, Facebook’s oversight board picks its first cases

Facebook has a new independent Oversight Board to help moderate content on the site, picking individual cases from the many presented to them where it is alright to remove content. The cases usually deal in hate speech, “inappropriate visuals,” or misinformation.

  • Reuters
  • 2020
  • 5 min
  • Gizmodo
  • 2020
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Microsoft’s Creepy New ‘Productivity Score’ Gamifies Workplace Surveillance

The data privacy of employees is at risk under a new “Productivity Score” program started by Microsoft, in which employers and administrators can use Microsoft 365 platforms to collect several metrics on their workers in order to “optimize productivity.” However, this approach causes unnecessary stress for workers, beginning a surveillance program in the workplace.

  • Gizmodo
  • 2020
  • 5 min
  • NPR
  • 2020
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Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, Others Ordered To Explain What They Do With User Data

After the FTC and 48 States charged Facebook with being a monopoly in late 2020, the FTC continues the push for accountability of tech monopolies by demanding that large social network companies, including Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter, share exactly what they do with user data in hopes of increased transparency. Pair with “Facebook hit with antitrust lawsuit from FTC and 48 state attorneys general“

  • NPR
  • 2020
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