Algorithms That Catch Food Stamp Cheaters Also Snare The Innocent
With losses from food stamp fraud estimated to average around a billion dollars a year, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) commissioned the creation of an algorithm called ALERT to sift through millions of retail transactions to identify potentially fraudulent...Tech Expert Quits Toronto ‘Smart City’ Board Over Data Privacy Concerns
Saadia Muzaffar, founder of TechGirls Canada, has resigned from Sidewalk Toronto — a “smart city” project — over concerns about a Google-owned company which is now involved in the project. In her resignation letter from the Sidewalk Toronto...Results-Focused Government Requires Both Social Science and Data Science
Just because modern data science and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques produce results, it does not mean that more traditional way of social science (i.e. custom data sets created for a specific study) should be discarded. Data science has its own blind spots. A...Scientists Slam Interior Department’s Two-Faced Approach to Data Transparency
An order issued by the Interior Department that is ostensibly meant to increase transparency and accessibility of research data may end up restricting the use of science-based studies in the formulation of federal policy. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) claims...Listen to Our Civic Development Podcast!
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