6. Privacy vs the gender data gap
Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
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Do They Use Health Data to Discriminate Against Female Applicants?
Gild software combed the internet for applicants social capital, that's things like what sights they visit and how they contribute to sights. The company has since been bought by hedge fund citadel. And those employment tools are using your information in ways that have a discrimatory impact. Title seven doesn't apply to them. Many of these apts present themselves as friends to women. They talk about the lack of data on female bodies and tell women, by putting your data into this ap, you're contributing to science. There is a desperate irony at the heart of this, and it all starts with the gender data gap. Women are systematically under diagnosed. Standard treatments don't work as well on
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