Algorithmic Accountability and Privacy – Inside PR 543

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This week, we consider the implications of an Algorithmic Accountability Act, rebalancing the freedom of companies to capture and use our data with our right to informed consent. Plus: Protect your privacy against hidden cameras during your next business trip.

Linkworthy

• Booker, Wyden, Clarke Introduce Bill Requiring Companies to Target Bias in Corporate Algorithms
• A new bill would force companies to check their algorithms for bias, Adi Robertson
• Democrats draw up bill that would require tech platforms to assess algorithmic bias, Taylor Hatmaker
• MIT Technology Review
• The Algorithm Newsletter
• It’s Time to Panic About Privacy, Farhad Manjoo
• The Big Nine, Amy Webb
• How to find hidden cameras in your AirBnB, and anywhere else, Michael Grothaus

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