Category: Algorithms

The Chinese government continues to develop its “social credit system” (SCS) aimed at monitoring and improving the behavior of citizens (Kuo 2019). The system operates

In May 2015 Google launched an app for sharing and storing photos called “Google Photos”. Google Photos has an algorithmic system that groups people’s photos,

Target, a large American retailer, implemented in 2012 a software designed to improve customer tracking practices in order to obtain better predictions over customers’ future

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University discovered that female job seekers are much less likely to be shown adverts on Google for highly

In 2010, a Taiwanese-American family discovered what seemed to be a malfunction in Nikon Coolpix S630 camera: every time they took a photo of each

The Carolinas HealthCare, a large network of hospitals and services, is currently applying an algorithmic risk-assessment system to target high-risk patients by using a variety

A 2018 study from the Center for Investigative Reporting stated that African-Americans and Latinos were far more likely to be denied conventional mortgages than whites

Google and Facebook’s algorithms have both been found guilty of offering keywords that advertisers could use to target people that make antisemitic and racist searches

Since 2001, data mining based on algorithmic processing has been increasingly used by law enforcement agencies around the world to prevent terrorism. In particular, US

Credit scoring has resulted in the rigid economic stratification of millions of Americans. Post-2008 financial crisis, many Americans fell into financial instability and could not