“Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com”
“Executive Summary — To build trust and facilitate transactions, online marketplaces present information not only about products, but also about the people offering the products.”
31
Jul
Tag Archives: datafaces
31
Jul
“Ubering While Black”
“The comedian Hannibal Buress has a bit in his act about trying to hail a cab in New York as a black man. He walks up to the taxi and tries to open the door, but rather than pick him up, the driver hits the gas and speeds away, with Buress running alongside the cab.”
27
Jul
“The automation myth”
“President Obama has warned that ATMs and airport check-in kiosks are contributing to high unemployment. Sen. Marco Rubio said that the central challenge of our times is “to ensure that the rise of the machines is not the fall of the worker.”
27
Jul
“Hologram Performance by Chief Keef Is Shut Down by Police”
“A performance by the Chicago rapper Chief Keef — or rather, his likeness, beamed live via hologram from California — was shut down by the police on Saturday night in Hammond, Ind.”
Read: Hologram Performance by Chief Keef Is Shut Down by Police
18
Jul
“First computers recognized our faces, now they know what we’re doing”
“We haven’t designed fully sentient artificial intelligence just yet, but we’re steadily teaching computers how to see, read, and understand our world.”
Read: First computers recognized our faces, now they know what we’re doing
10
Jul
“Singapore airport to install facial recognition technology in new terminal”
“Singapore’s Changi Airport will install facial recognition technology at the new Terminal 4 to eliminate the need for security staff to manually identity passengers at various check points, according to a report by Today.”
Read: Singapore airport to install facial recognition technology in new terminal
09
Jul
“The WTF Economy”
“WTF?! In San Francisco, Uber has 3x the revenue of the entire prior taxi and limousine industry. WTF?! Without owning a single room, Airbnb has more rooms on offer than some of the largest hotel groups in the world. Airbnb has 800 employees, while Hilton has 152,000.”
08
Jul
“Google, AdBlade Bar Abortion Clinic From Advertising”
“Abortion care services continue to be stonewalled by some of the web’s most visited sites, as these Internet giants charge that abortion is not a family friendly topic.”
07
Jul
“Study Suggests Google’s Ad-Targeting System May Discriminate”
“That Google and other companies track our movements around the Web to target us with ads is well known.”
Read: Study Suggests Google’s Ad-Targeting System May Discriminate
07
Jul
“Google’s algorithms advertise higher paying jobs to more men than women”
“Ad-targeting algorithms created by Google could be guilty of discriminating between internet users, say researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).”
Read: Google’s algorithms advertise higher paying jobs to more men than women