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White House Worried About Discrimination Through Analytics
Cludge writes "Describing concerns about the potential for big data methods to inadvertently classify people by race, religion, income or other forms of discrimination, the White House announced it will release a report next week that reviews the adequacy of existing privacy laws and regulations in the era of online data collection. The review, led by Obama's senior counselor, John Podesta, will outline concerns about whether methods used for commercial applications may be inherently vulnerable to inadvertent discrimination. 'He described a program called "Street Bump" in Boston that detected pot-holes using sensors in smartphones of citizens who had downloaded an app. The program inadvertently directed repair crews to wealthier neighborhoods, where people were more likely to carry smartphones and download the app.' 'It's easy to imagine how big data technology, if used to cross legal lines we have been careful to set, could end up reinforcing existing inequities in housing, credit, employment, health and education,' he said."
Sounds like you've never been in the ghetto. I bet that unemployed mom drives a better car than you. I know most of my family that lives in government housing has nice cars and considers us people that work to be suckers. I share a studio basement apartment and ride a scooter. I don't even own a TV. My cousin, who no one in her immediate family has never had a steady job, has her own room, a 2005 Mustang, MacBook, a 60" TV, and cable.
Dude, go talk to people in a black community, they highly distrust anything to do with politics and government. It's because 9 times out of 10 the Government has screwed their community.
Inner cities dont get ANY tax dollars for rebuild of roads and infrastructure, their schools dont get squat, etc... If it was FAIR, then all tax dollars in the state set aside for schools would be doled out at 150% rate for any school district where the income is below 30% line, 100% for middle 30%, and 50% for the above 30%. Yes that means rich fuckers can pay extra for their kids schooling, most send them to private schools anyways, so rich districts only need 1/2 the schools. there is a drastically higher rate of special needs kids in low income school districts, as in a 60 to nearly 100% increase in special needs schools compared to other districts. Why? because special needs kids are fucking expensive. Even a middle class family will get destroyed by having a special needs kid, it means that one parent MUST be attending to that child all the time. So a family that had the potential of 2 working parents now has only 1 plus a child that takes huge amounts of the resources.
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