Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech.
Lauren Kirchner writes about the intersection between government and technology and how the use of data in decisions affects us all, particularly the most vulnerable.
She previously worked at ProPublica, where she was part of the team of reporters and programmers who were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for their “Machine Bias” series.
Her reporting on technology and criminal justice has appeared in The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, and Pacific Standard magazine, among others. Lauren began her journalism career at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.
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Even after including factors the mortgage industry said explain differences, lenders are still more likely to deny people of color than White people under similar financial circumstances
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Even accounting for factors lenders said would explain disparities, people of color are denied mortgages at significantly higher rates than White people
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They raise concerns over racial disparities, effects of pandemic
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After decades of secrecy, two judges have ruled defendants can investigate whether TrueAllele’s probabilistic genotyping algorithm works as advertised
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Reforms have been in the works for years, but a looming eviction crisis has made them urgent
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Even when people get their criminal records expunged, data brokers ensure the past keeps coming back to haunt them
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Landlords increasingly use screening services to weed out renters. Advocates say both landlords and the algorithms should be accountable when things go wrong
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Investigate, complain, and maybe sue
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Scant rules around tenant background screenings mean money woes during the pandemic’s economic slowdown will haunt some tenants, even if they pay up
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Las audiencias judiciales se están volviendo virtuales en respuesta al coronavirus (COVID-19). Algunos estudios demuestran que pueden producirse resultados más severos para los acusados
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