PRG News Roundup: Oct 10, 2018
The Machine Learning algorithms Amazon has been using to screen applicant’s resumes generated gender biases. This is the most recent in a line of cases of algorithm generated…
PRG News Roundup: Oct. 3
Tim Berners-Lee and John Bruce founded the start-up Interrupt and are working on Solid, a web project designed to decentralize data ownership (The Inquirer). Facebook was hacked through their “View…
PRG News Roundup: Sept. 26, 2018
Uber agreed to pay $148 million in settlement for 2016 data breach (Washington Post). French data protection authority issued some of the first formal guidance on blockchain and the…
PRG News Roundup: April 18
A little-known data firm that created 48 million user profiles by scraping data from sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Zillow had been storing its profiles on Amazon cloud storage without…
PRG News Roundup: April 4
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision in Sandvig v. Sessions. The case pitted the First Amendment against data privacy concerns, and the decision has…
PRG News Roundup: Jan. 24
The United States Department of Education issued a letter to Agora Charter Schools telling them that they cannot require parents to use an online service that would require them to…
PRG News Roundup 11/15
Emiliano Falcon and Eli Siems contributed A recent Op-Ed in the New York Times assailed the academic community for being asleep at the wheel on the critical study of algorithms…
New York City Council Hearing on Algorithmic Transparency Bill
On Monday, October 16, the New York City Council's Committee on Technology held a hearing on the proposed bill INT 1696-2017, which "would require agencies that use algorithms or other…
PRG News Roundup: April 26
News Roundup, April 26 By Eli Siems U.K. Parliament concluded an inquiry into algorithmic decision-making. James Davenport contributed. “Buzzfeed is building a team of writers to sell you stuff…
PRG News Roundup: April 12
PRG NEWS ROUNDUP: APRIL 12 by Caroline Alewaerts A research from New York University and Michigan State University reveals that smartphone fingerprint sensors may not be as secure as we…