Issues

Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044

In the future, more than half of the population of the United States will be people of color. Afrofuturists foresee a world in which egalitarian policies and technology reduce crime and bias in criminal justice.

The Auditing Imperative for Automated Hiring

Automated hiring systems are not well understood. Hiring platforms can use proxies for gender and race to facilitate and conceal discrimination. Antidiscrimination law is not designed to address these new issues.

Algorithms at Work: Productivity Monitoring Applications and Wearable Technology as the New Data-Centric Research Agenda for Employment and Labor Law

Increasingly, employers use applications and wearable technologies to monitor employees at work. Monitoring systems raise new legal issues related to privacy rights, discrimination, and worker safety.

Platforms at Work: Automated Hiring Platforms and Other New Intermediaries in the Organization of the Workplace

Many large companies require job applicants to apply through automated hiring platforms (AHPs). AHPs allow managers to standardize management practices and treat workers as more fungible.

Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice

In many jurisdictions, police data is tainted by a history of racial bias, planted evidence, and distorted reporting. Predictive policing systems trained on this data may perpetuate bias.

AI Systems as State Actors

Governments often use artificial intelligence (AI) systems developed by private firms to make key decisions, but disclaim responsibility for problems with the software.

Privacy Dependencies

One person’s privacy choices can affect the privacy of family, friends, and those of similar or different demographic characteristics. Current privacy rules do not recognize the social value of privacy.

Digital Civil Liberties and the Translation Problem

As new surveillance technologies and smartphones become ubiquitous, courts in the United States and Europe struggle to apply traditional principles to protect civil liberties.

The Corporate Cultivation of Digital Resignation

Many computer users are resigned to loss of privacy. Firms may cultivate this resignation with confusing and distracting privacy interfaces, to forestall collective action to protect privacy.

The European Union General Data Protection Regulation: What It Is and What It Means

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important data protection regulation in decades, and will affect data processing world-wide. Under the GDPR, firms must develop detailed data processing policies.