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Technocracy and the Social Contract: Latanya Sweeney
Technology in the Social Contract
Increasingly, the design of new technology determines the way our society functions and the way we live. Simple design flaws like the lack of a mute button on Sony Camcorders ended up changing our laws on surveillance. We don't elect the people that build our global technology landscape. In addition, once the technology is successful in the marketplace, its design is replicated without question.
More Equitable Algorithms
Algorithms have the power to harm us beyond individual privacy issues, in ways we don't always see, such as their ability to discriminate…
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