Big Data Machines

Prediction, Bias, and Control

Apr 28, 2015

Overview

This seminar explores the growing importance of big data to economic activity, and the effect of this shift on personal freedom and systems of social discrimination and control. Questions to be addressed include:

How are businesses adopting big data tools, algorithms and practices into their commercial and employment practices?

What are the legal, social and personal ramifications of our collective transition to a big data-driven economy?

What industries and actors have been most impacted by the rise of Big Financial Data, and why?

Participants

Speaker

Frank Pasquale

Professor of Law

University of Maryland

Speaker

Virginia Eubanks

Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

SUNY Albany

Speaker

Bernard Harcourt

Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law

Columbia Law School

Core Resources

Big Data And Human Rights

Eubanks, Virginia Big Data and Human Rights. Data and Discrimination: Collected Essays. Open Technology Institute, 2014.

The Moral Hazard Of Big Data

Harris, Malcolm. “The Moral Hazard of Big Data.” The New Republic (2015).

Interview On The Black Box Society

Joseph, Lawrence, and Frank Pasquale Interview on the Black Box Society . Balkinazation, 2015.

Digital Security In The Expository Society: Spectacle, Surveillance, And Exhibition In The Neoliberal Age Of Big Data

Harcourt, Bernard. Digital Security in the Expository Society: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Exhibition in the Neoliberal Age of Big Data.” American Political Science Association – Annual Meeting, 2014. Columbia Law School, 2014.