Cybersecurity Quote by Cathy O'Neil

“In the world of WMDs, privacy is increasingly a luxury that only the wealthy can afford.” quote by Cathy O'Neil — Download Open image

““In the world of WMDs, privacy is increasingly a luxury that only the wealthy can afford.””

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With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health…

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“They draw statistical correlations between a person’s zip code or language patterns and her potential to pay back a loan or handle a job.…

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I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified…

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The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the…

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“model’s blind spots reflect the judgments and priorities of its creators. While the choices in Google Maps and avionics software appear cut and dried,…

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I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging…

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We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized…

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“Employers, for example, are increasingly using credit scores to evaluate potential hires. Those who pay their bills promptly, the thinking goes, are more likely…

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Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.

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It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning,…

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The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

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“The algorithms would make sure that those deemed losers would remain that way. A lucky minority would gain ever more control over the data…

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