Existing laws are failing to protect the public from discrimination by algorithms that influence decision-making on everything from employment to housing, according to new research from the Oxford Internet Institute.
Sandra Wachter, the academic behind the study, found algorithms are drawing inferences about sensitive personal traits such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and religious beliefs based on our browsing behaviour.
These traits are then used by online advertisers to either target or exclude certain groups from products and services, or to offer them different prices.
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