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Limitless Worker Surveillance
From the Pinkerton private detectives of the 1850s, to the closed-circuit cameras and email monitoring of the 1990s, to contemporary apps that quantify the productivity of workers, American employers…
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Platforms at Work: Automated Hiring Platforms and Other New Intermediaries in the Organization of Work
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This chapter lays out a research agenda in the sociology of work for a type of data and organizational intermediary: work platforms and employs a case study of the adoption of automated hiring platforms in which the authors distinguish between promises and existing practices.
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An Auditing Imperative for Automated Hiring
Even as laws have been enacted to grant equal opportunity to job applicants, new socio-technical developments have ushered in novel mechanisms for discrimination. The high bar of proof to demonstrate…
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Combating Discrimination Against the Formerly Incarcerated in the Labor Market
Both discrimination by private employers and governmental restrictions in the form of statutes that prohibit professional licensing serve to exclude the formerly incarcerated from much of the labor…
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The Paradox of Automation as Anti-Bias Intervention
A received wisdom is that automated decision-making serves as an anti-bias intervention. The conceit is that removing humans from the decision-making process will also eliminate human bias. The…
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Hiring by Algorithm: Predicting and Preventing Disparate Impact
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This Essay shows that protected information that is encoded in seemingly facially neutral data could be predicted with high accuracy by algorithms and employed in the decision-making process, thus resulting in a disparate impact on protected classes and makes the legal argument that such assessments and data modifications should be mandated as an anti-discriminatory measure.
Health and Big Data: An Ethical Framework for Health Information Collection by Corporate Wellness Programs
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An ethical framework to be adopted by wellness program vendors in order to conduct wellness programs that would achieve cost-saving goals without undue burdens on the worker is offered.
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Genetic Data and Civil Rights
Well-settled legal doctrines prohibit employers from discriminating against job applicants on the basis of physical characteristics such as race, sex, age or disability. However, the full…
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The “black box” at work
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The “black box at work” not only enables worker domination in the workplace, it deprives the worker of Rawlsian justice.
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Evolving public views on the value of one’s DNA and expectations for genomic database governance: Results from a national survey
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A large survey of public attitudes regarding genomic database governance offers a forward-looking window on individual preferences that can be useful for institutions of all types as they develop governance approaches in this area of large-scale data sharing.
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