Pro Publica: "Machine Bias. There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks"
*Machine Bias* /There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. // //And it’s biased against blacks/ By Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica May 23, 2016 On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter. Borden and a friend grabbed the bike and scooter and tried to ride them down the street in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs. Just as the 18-year-old girls were realizing they were too big for the tiny conveyances — which belonged to a 6-year-old boy — a woman came running after them saying, “That’s my kid’s stuff.” Borden and her friend immediately dropped the bike and scooter and walked away. But it was too late — a neighbor who witnessed the heist had already called the police. Borden and her friend were arrested and charged with burglary and petty theft for the items, which were valued at a total of $80. […] Continua qui: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal...
per quanti fossero interessati a questi temi ed all'impatto sociale dei sistemi di predictive analytics, mi permetto di segnalare il mio ultimo lavoro su "Personal data for decisional purposes in the age of analytics" Mantelero, A. 2016. Personal data for decisional purposes in the age of analytics: from an individual to a collective dimension of data protection. Computer Law and Security Review, 32 (2): 238-255 http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero/Mantelero_Personal_data_for_decs... AM -- Alessandro Mantelero Politecnico di Torino Nexa Center for Internet and Society | Director of Privacy European Data Protection Law Review | Associate Editor On Mon, 23 May 2016 15:33:16 +0200 "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> wrote:
*Machine Bias*
/There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. // //And it’s biased against blacks/
By Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica
May 23, 2016
On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter. Borden and a friend grabbed the bike and scooter and tried to ride them down the street in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs.
Just as the 18-year-old girls were realizing they were too big for the tiny conveyances — which belonged to a 6-year-old boy — a woman came running after them saying, “That’s my kid’s stuff.” Borden and her friend immediately dropped the bike and scooter and walked away.
But it was too late — a neighbor who witnessed the heist had already called the police. Borden and her friend were arrested and charged with burglary and petty theft for the items, which were valued at a total of $80.
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Continua qui: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal...
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