On 13-03-04 11:36 AM, Glen Newton wrote:
> Related to our earlier discussion concerning the context of data
> release & impact on society, etc.
>
>
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/the-promise-and-peril-of-the-data-driven-society/ Funny. I read it, saw the references to algorithms, and saw this as
yet another "code is law" article rather than about data.
It is the question of who authors those policies/algorithms that we
need to be more concerned about, with the inputs/outputs of these
algorithms just being part of the discussion of the algorithm and not
something that should be separated out.
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