The Federal Trade Commission is considering whether to write sweeping new regulations that could restrict how businesses collect and use consumer data, hinting at a possible crackdown on ...

Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) describes a veritable freakshow of commercial algorithms whose insidious pathologies play out collectively to ruin peoples’ lives.

He says when they developed the standard, they needed an algorithm for commercial use that could meet export requirements to be used outside Europe, and that in 1995 a 32-bit key still provided ...

It also seeks input on the potential economic harms caused by poorly trained algorithms that may be unfairly biased along characteristics such as race and gender, as well as the techniques some ...

Why is the rent so high? The secret is in the sauce. The software uses an algorithm, with inputs from a variety of market-specific data sets, to price apartment rents in order to remove the guesswork ...

Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) describes a veritable freakshow of commercial algorithms whose insidious pathologies play out collectively to ruin peoples’ lives.