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Catching a movie soon? Why you should be suspicious of online ratings ‪#‎muckreads‬

You were excited for the date: dinner and a movie. Your date picked a restaurant — “It got five stars on Yelp!” — but the movie was up to you. So you checked out what was playing and bought the t…
fivethirtyeight.com|By Walter Hickey

How tech’s lack of diversity leads to racist software ‪#‎muckreads‬

How tech’s lack of diversity leads to racist software [...] a few weeks ago, what he got from the photo-sharing service was racist insults and a smattering of stories in the national press after photos of him and a female friend were labeled “gorillas” instead of humans. Photo-sharing services Googl…
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Predictive policing — groundbreaking or overreaching?

Robert McDaniel was puzzled when the Chicago police commander dropped by his West Side home unannounced last month. The visit was cordial, but Barbara West's message was clear: Don't commit any more...
articles.chicagotribune.com

How Staples used location data to edge the competition ‪#‎Muckreads‬

A Wall Street Journal investigation identified several companies, including Staples, Discover Financial Services, Rosetta Stone and Home Depot, that were consistently adjusting prices and displaying different product offers on their websites based on a range of characteristics that could be discover…
www.wsj.com|By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Jeremy Singer-Vine and Ashkan Soltani

Outlawed decades ago, 'redlining' is again rearing its head.

The practice in which banks choke off lending to minority communities was outlawed decades ago, but recently banks across the country have been accused of the practice.
nytimes.com|By RACHEL L. SWARNS
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