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Lawgorithms: Everything Poverty Lawyers Need to Know About Tech, Law, and Social Justice

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The Blind Spots of the People Making the Systems

I think we can draw a straight line between the biases, conscious and unconscious, of the tech industry and the biases imbedded in audimated systems. One of the human interpretation things that you can do as a poverty lawyer looking at these automated systems is to look at the people who are making the systems. So for example, i the apple watch was touted as having all of these great health features, but then it launched and it did not have a period tracker. Now, if there had been more, i more women on the apple development team, i then somebody might have pointed out, hey, it actually makes more sense,. If we're going to launch a werable that has

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