Data & Society

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

Dec 8, 2020

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Public Interest Technology - I Love That Idea

02:50

Are We Getting More Knowledge About Automated Decision Making Systems?

02:39

Where Can You Start in Understanding the Automated System?

02:54

Introduction

2min

The New Report on Poverty Logarithms Is Not Just for Lawyers

6min

Machine Learning and Automated Decision Making

3min

The Right Tool for the Task Is a Computer

3min

Lawyers Are Great at Moving Beyond Techno Chovinism, Right?

3min

The Blind Spots of the People Making the Systems

2min

Computer Science Is a Descendedant of Mathematics

3min

Social Mobility

4min

Is There a Silver Bullet?

2min

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How Do Automated Systems Work?

3min

11.

The Pandemic Is Making This Worse

2min

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Do You Think That Should Happen at the Federal Level or at the State Level?

2min

13.

Public Interest Technology - I Love That Idea

3min

14.

Can You Read Computer Code?

3min

15.

Data Privacy and the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

4min

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Facial Recognition Systems Are Biased

2min

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The Impacts of Different Technologies on Different People

3min

18.

Is There a Debt Forgiveness Program for Law Students?

3min

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Are We Getting More Knowledge About Automated Decision Making Systems?

3min

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Where Can You Start in Understanding the Automated System?

3min

Automated decision-making systems make decisions about our lives, and those with low socioeconomic status often bear the brunt of the harms these systems cause. Poverty Lawgorithms: A Poverty Lawyers Guide to Fighting Automated Decision-Making Harms on Low-Income Communities is a guide by Data & Society Faculty Fellow Michele Gilman to familiarize fellow poverty and civil legal services lawyers with the ins and outs of data-centric and automated-decision making systems so that they can clearly understand the sources of the problems their clients are facing and effectively advocate on their behalf.

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