Big Data, Data Discrimination, Data Analytics

Data Discrimination Means the Poor May Experience a Different Internet | MIT Technology Review: " . . . 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. “It’s the very start of a conversation about how to do this better,” Crawford, who is also a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, said in an interview before the event. “People think ‘big data’ avoids the problem of discrimination, because you are dealing with big data sets, but in fact big data is being used for more and more precise forms of discrimination—a form of data redlining.” During her talk this morning, Crawford added that with big data, “you will never know what those discriminations are, and I think that’s where the concern begins.” Health data is particularly vulnerable, the researcher says. Search terms for disease symptoms, online purchases of medical supplies, and even the RFID tags on drug packaging can provide websites and retailers with information about a person’s health. . . ." (read more at link above)

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