A few weeks ago a story broke revealing that the New Orleans Police Department had been using a predictive policing tool supplied by CIA-backed data mining company, Palantir, to identify gang members.

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Law enforcement in America is facing a day of reckoning over its systemic, institutionalized racism and ongoing brutality against the people it was designed to protect. Virtually every aspect of the ...

It turns out the U.S. isn’t the only place where technology has been weaponized by the police. Law enforcement officers across Canada are utilizing predictive algorithms for crime investigations with ...

As summer comes to a close, local governments are returning to their council chambers and facing massive pressures. Municipal budgets are losing hundreds of millions in revenue in the wake of ...

Algorithms used by authorities to predict the likelihood of criminal conduct are facing a major legal test in Wisconsin. The state’s highest court is set to rule on whether such algorithms, known as ...

It’s that time of year again. March Madness is upon us, in all its basketball, school-spirit, gambling, money-on-the-line, eyes-glued-to-tiny-phone-screen-sports-apps, hidden-browser-tab-at-work, ...

Predictive algorithms help retailers leverage historical data and trend analysis to forecast future product demand with greater accuracy. Retailers forecast ...

As technology is built by humans, it of course will mimic our prejudices. Perhaps more worrisome, and less understood is how technological biases can not only reinforce but further exacerbate societal ...

If you are like me, you sometimes have a hard time trying to decide what to watch on Netflix. Considering the thousands of titles in their catalog, they try to make it easier for us by providing a ...