Category: Algorithms

Germany’s BAMF (Federal Office for Immigration and Refugee) decides which of the millions of migrants who arrive in Germany will be permitted to stay. Because

A 2013 study (Sweeney, 2013) revealed that Google AdSense (Google’s online algorithmic advertising platform) was more likely to target ads related to having a criminal

The New York Police Department has developed its own algorithmic facial identification system used in both routine investigations and concrete criminal events, such as terrorist

Varying algorithmic instruments have been introduced in the penal system across local jurisdictions in the United States in order to predict recidivism and identify crime

The Manchester Police Department has implemented a predictive policing system developed by IBM, which is able to identify hot zones for crimes in the city,

The Metropolitan Police of London has implemented an automated system to assess the potential harm that gang members impose on public safety. Since 2012, the

In Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, software containing a statistical model has been designed to predict potential child abuse and neglect by assigning a risk score to

A 2017 investigation from ProPublica and Consumer Reports that compared the car insurance premiums across four different American states (California, Illinois, Texas, and Missouri) discovered

The United State’s Department of HUD (Housing and Urban Development) has sued Facebook over discrimination (Tobin, n.d.). According to Dept. of HUD, Facebook has violated

Netflix employs algorithmic processing to create profiles of users from collected metadata and to predict which content they are most likely to consume. Every time