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Data Discrimination Means the Poor May Experience a Different Internet
Data analytics are being used to implement a subtle form of discrimination, while anonymous data sets can be mined to reveal health data and other private information, a Microsoft researcher warned this morning at MIT Technology Review’s EmTechconference.
In a new paper, she and a colleague propose a system of “due process” that would give people more legal rights to understand how data analytics are used in determinations made against them, such as denial of health insurance or a job.
See the full story with a link to her paper here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520131/data-discrimination-means-the-poor-may-experience-a-different-internet/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20131010