WHEN BIG DATA BECOMES A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE

Using software created by an engineer at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the city of Chicago developed a “’heat list’ — an index of the roughly 400 people in their city supposedly most likely to be involved in violent crime.” The criteria for placement on the list are secret but reportedly go beyond indicators like criminal conviction, and raise real questions about racial bias in the selection process.

Read the article When Big Data Becomes a Civil Rights Problem from ACLU.ORG.