{"id":2412,"date":"2022-01-06T21:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2022-01-06T21:13:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:13:54","slug":"algorithm-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/algorithm-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Algorithm Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? D.C.&#8217;s attorney general proposes  to shield\u00a0district residents from discriminatory and biased computer algorithm. This would make it illegal for businesses to use discriminatory algorithms in\u00a0areas such as education, employment, housing, and with providing services like credit, health care, and insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? The policy goal of reducing sexism, racism and boas for ethnic background is gaining steam. Penalties include up to $10,000 for each violation of the guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? This mirrors what&#8217;s happening in business right now.  &#8220;Data &amp; Trust Alliance, a group that includes major corporations, said more than\u00a0a dozen companies would adopt safeguards\u00a0to prevent bias with algorithms used for workforce decisions, around\u00a0issues like recruiting and pay. That\u00a0group includes General Motors, IBM, Mastercard, Walmart\u00a0and Meta (the rebrand of Facebook), among other companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/tech-data\/2021\/12\/biased-algorithm-legislation-tktk\/187475\/\">Route Fifty | <strong>A Proposal to Block Companies From Using Biased Algorithms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? D.C.&#8217;s attorney general proposes to shield\u00a0district residents from discriminatory and biased computer algorithm. This would make it illegal for businesses to use discriminatory algorithms in\u00a0areas such as education, employment, housing, and with providing services like credit, health care, and insurance. Why is this important? The policy goal of reducing sexism, racism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}