Big Data: A Tool for Fighting Discrimination and Empowering Groups
Big Data: A Tool for Fighting Discrimination and Empowering Groups
Even as big data uses are examined for evidence of facilitating unfair and unlawful discrimination, data can help to fight discrimination. It is already being used in myriad ways to protect and to empower vulnerable groups in society. In partnership with the Anti-Defamation League, FPF prepared a report that looked at how businesses, governments, and civil society organizations are leveraging data to provide access to job markets, to uncover discriminatory practices, and to develop new tools to improve education and provide public assistance.
Big Data: A Tool for Fighting Discrimination and Empowering Groups explains that although big data can introduce hidden biases into information, it can also help dispel existing biases that impair access to good jobs, good education, and opportunity.
