An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: The most common way public agencies protect our identities is anonymization. This involves stripping out obviously identifiable things such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, and so on. Data sets are also altered to be less precise, columns in spreadsheets are removed, and “noise” is introduced to the data. Privacy policies…
Tag: Gender
London gender clinic reports rising number of non-binary attendees
A gender identity clinic for under-18s says the rise in young people seeking help may be levelling off, and that an increasing proportion identify as non-binary Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2210488-london-gender-clinic-reports-rising-number-of-non-binary-attendees/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The Trillion-Dollar Taboo: Why It’s Time To Stop Ignoring Mental Health at Work
Experts in workplace psychology overwhelmingly agree that burnout is a growing public health crisis. An excerpt from a long report: When the FT set out to investigate this issue, we asked readers to describe how their employers handle mental health issues, including stress, burnout, anxiety and depression. More than 450 people responded from 43 countries. Although they were a self-selecting group,…
Credit Scores Based On AI and Your Social Media Profile Could Usher In New Way For Banks To Discriminate
Credit scores have a long history of prejudice. “Most changes in how credit scores are calculated over the years — including the shift from human assessment to computer calculations, and most recently to artificial intelligence — have come out of a desire to make the scores more equitable, but credit companies have failed to remove bias, on the basis of race…