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The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue - 14 avril 2021
Robert Williams, who was wrongfully arrested because of a faulty facial recognition match, is asking for the technology to be banned.
On January 9, 2020, Detroit police drove to the suburb of Farmington Hill and arrested Robert Williams in his driveway while his wife and young daughters looked on. Williams, a (...)
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Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs - 12 avril 2021
Its ad-delivery system is excluding women from opportunities without regard to their qualifications. That would be illegal under US employment law.
Facebook is withholding certain job ads from women because of their gender, according to the latest audit of its ad service.
The audit, conducted by independent (...)
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Coded Bias : Algorithmes et discrimination - 11 avril 2021
Ce documentaire enquête sur les biais algorithmiques dévoilés par la découverte de failles dans la reconnaissance faciale par Joy Buolamwini, chercheuse au MIT Media Lab.
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Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data - 11 avril 2021
Automated translation services tend to erase women or reduce them to stereotypes. Simply tweaking the training data or the models is not enough to make translations fair.
Ever since Google Translate launched in the late 2000s, users noticed that it got gender wrong. In the early 2010s, some Twitter users (...)
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Elise Degrave : « Aujourd’hui, l’Etat profile déjà les Belges » - 23 mars 2021
La centralisation des données, notamment à des fins de surveillance, n’est pas qu’un fantasme. Pour la professeure à l’UNamur, l’outil Oasis, utilisé depuis 2005 pour la lutte contre la fraude sociale, témoigne de cette tendance insidieuse. Et dangereuse pour la démocratie.
A la faveur de la crise sanitaire, le citoyen a (...)
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Sommes-nous protégés des algorithmes qu’utilisent les administrations publiques ? - 21 mars 2021
Lorsque les algorithmes sont sur le devant de la scène médiatique, la lumière est souvent mise sur les conséquences de leur utilisation par le secteur privé, à l’image de ceux qui régissent les réseaux sociaux. Pourtant, parmi les algorithmes impactant nos vies, la généralisation des algorithmes d’aide à la prise de (...)
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The Algorithmic Auditing Trap. - 18 mars 2021
‘Bias audits’ for discriminatory tools are a promising idea, but current approaches leave much to be desired
This op-ed was written by Mona Sloane, a sociologist and senior research scientist at the NYU Center for Responsible A.I. and a fellow at the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge. Her work focuses on design (...)
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Automated racism : How tech can entrench bias - 2 mars 2021
Dutch benefits scandal highlights need for EU scrutiny.
In the run-up to parliamentary elections in the Netherlands this month, center-right and extreme right parties are outdoing one another in calling for a surveillance state that will come down on marginalized and minority groups in all its might.
This should (...)
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Objective or Biased - 2 mars 2021
On the questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications
Software programs promise to identify the personality traits of job candidates based on short videos. With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) they are supposed to make the selection process of candidates more objective and faster.
An (...)
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Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads ? - 26 février 2021
Earlier this year Mighty Well, an adaptive clothing company that makes fashionable gear for people with disabilities, did something many newish brands do : It tried to place an ad for one of its most popular products on Facebook.
The product in question was a gray zip-up hoodie ($39.95) with the message : “I am (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 12 février 2021
A new report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations looks at the use and abuse of facial recognition technology by states across the globe, providing detailed case studies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition (...)
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Where Do Vaccine Doses Go, and Who Gets Them ? The Algorithms Decide - 12 février 2021
Health agencies and hospitals are using different formulas to allocate the coronavirus shots, exacerbating disparities in vaccine access.
Faced with the daunting task of parceling out a limited supply of coronavirus vaccines, Trump administration officials came up with a seemingly simple formula last year to (...)
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Algoritmes zoeken naar bijstand-fraudeurs, welke rol speelt etnisch profileren ? - 12 février 2021
"Ik weet niet waar de gemeente precies op zoekt, maar ik denk dat ik word geprofileerd op mijn buitenlandse afkomst."
Aan het woord is Miryam - niet haar echte naam. Ze krijgt een bijstandsuitkering in de gemeente Nissewaard, waar ook Spijkenisse onder valt. Die gemeente gebruikt ’slimme’ algoritmes om (...)
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Big data experiments : new powers for Europol risk reinforcing police bias - 11 février 2021
EU policing agency Europol could be given new powers to process vast quantities of personal data under proposals put forward by the European Commission in December. One objective is to train algorithms “for the development of tools” to be used by Europol and national law enforcement agencies, raising the risk of (...)
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Predict and Surveil : Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing - 30 janvier 2021
The scope of criminal justice surveillance, from policing to incarceration, has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, health, and marketing. While law enforcement’s use of big data is hotly contested, very little (...)
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Facebook Said It Would Stop Pushing Users to Join Partisan Political Groups. It Didn’t. - 29 janvier 2021
According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations
In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, Facebook said it was taking “emergency” measures to prevent people from using the platform to spread misinformation or coordinate violence. Among (...)
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How our data encodes systematic racism - 29 janvier 2021
Technologists must take responsibility for the toxic ideologies that our data sets and algorithms reflect.
I’ve often been told, “The data does not lie.” However, that has never been my experience. For me, the data nearly always lies. Google Image search results for “healthy skin” show only light-skinned women, and a (...)
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Lee Lu-da outed as AI Frankenstein’s monster - 29 janvier 2021
What they’re calling artificial intelligence these days is sounding just plain dumb.
Lee Lu-da, who’s being marketed as a virtual star of the future, is now able to answer messengers via chat services. The problem is, she seems to be sticking her virtual foot in her virtual mouth with offensive comments about (...)
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SyRI-coalitie aan Eerste Kamer : ‘Super SyRI’ blauwdruk voor meer toeslagenaffaires - 29 janvier 2021
De maatschappelijke coalitie tegen SyRI waarschuwt de Eerste Kamer over het wetsvoorstel voor ‘Super SyRI’, waarvan morgen de behandeling start. “Dit voorstel legitimeert de werkwijze die leidde tot de toeslagenaffaire.”
De Wet Gegevensverwerking door Samenwerkingsverbanden (WGS) maakt het mogelijk om databases van (...)
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The Dutch Government’s Benefits Scandal Is Rooted in Stigma Against Welfare Recipients - 29 janvier 2021
Last Friday, the Dutch government had to resign in scandal, after thousands of parents were wrongly accused of making fraudulent childcare benefit claims. The affair was driven by racist demonization of welfare recipients deeply rooted in the country’s politics.
At least 26,000 families on the verge of bankruptcy, (...)
