Technically Wrong Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher, "Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech"
English | ISBN: 0393634639 | 2017 | 240 pages | AZW3, MOBI | 7 MB + 5 MB
A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products―and harm us all.

Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask why all these digital products are designed the way they are. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares: Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars.
Sara Wachter-Boettcher takes an unflinching look at the values, processes, and assumptions that lead to these and other problems.
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