Lealholm is a postcard village – the kind of thousand-year-old settlement with just a tea room, pub, provincial train station and a solitary Post Office to distinguish it from the rolling wilderness ...

Governments are increasingly turning to automated systems to make decisions for criminal sentencing, medicare eligibility, and school placement. Public officials and companies tout gains in speed and ...

Democratic lawmakers have proposed a bill to address the algorithmic biases lurking under the surface of tech’s biggest platforms. The bill, known as the Algorithmic Accountability Act, was introduced ...

A senior CCI official emphasizes the importance of companies performing self-audits to prevent algorithmic collusion and ...

Algorithmic accountability policies should prioritise meaningful public participation as a core policy goal, so that any deployment actually meets the needs of affected people and communities, ...

Most Americans believe in equal opportunity for everyone. But equal opportunity is being undermined as corporations increasingly delegate life-changing decisions to algorithms that reinforce the ...

Companies that create algorithms that implement public policy should not expect blanket protection from freedom of information review simply because of underlying intellectual property rights. What ...

We’ve become suspicious of tech. Once obscure issues like the design of news recommendation systems and the evaluation of criminal justice risk scoring methods have become major public conversations.