Privacy infringement doesn’t just mean annoying ads online; it could mean being denied a job or housing. Prachi Gupta investigates big data’s big problem.
Your Data Is Discriminating...Against You
Arroyo contacted the Connecticut Fair Housing Center , a nonprofit that provides free legal services to alleged victims of housing discrimination. In the process of filing a complaint against the landlord, Arroyo and her lawyers discovered that the landlord didn’t know why Arroyo was denied either; the decision hadn’t been made by him but by an algorithm used by CoreLogic, a software company he had enlisted to screen potential tenants.
That is in part because algorithms are made up of biased data and often don’t consider other relevant factors. Because low-income people have more contact with government agencies , a disproportionate amount of their info feeds these systems. Not only can this data fall into corporate hands, but the government itself uses it to surveil.
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