As part of the International Women’s Day programme here at DMU we are delighted to invite you to this event.
Speaker: Isabel Wagner
Event info/background: News headlines about privacy invasions, discrimination, and biases discovered in the platforms of big technology companies are commonplace today. The headlines – ranging from comprehensive profiling of users, to microtargeting of political messages, to discrimination based on gender, race, and age – show that big tech's operations can cause real-world harm.However, big tech companies are reluctant to disclose how they operate and typically do not give out specific information, such as what data they collect or how their algorithms make decisions. This secretive operation counteracts ideals of transparency, openness, and accountability.
This talk will show how researchers have found evidence of gender bias and discrimination in big tech platforms, and will analyze big tech's track record on women's rights.