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The Autonomous Mind: The Right to Freedom of Thought in the Twenty-First Century

On 13 Aug, 2020 By admin 0 Comments

September, 2019

To lose freedom of thought (FoT) is to lose our dignity, our democracy and our very selves. Accordingly, the right to FoT receives absolute protection under international human rights law. However, this foundational right has been neither significantly developed nor often utilized. The contours of this right urgently need to be defined due to twenty-first century threats to FoT posed by new technologies. As such, this paper draws on law and psychology to consider what the right to FoT should be in the twenty-first century.

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Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights - 2016 United States White House Report

On 12 May, 2017 By admin 0 Comments

CECILIA MUÑOZ - Director Domestic Policy Council

MEGAN SMITH - U.S. Chief Technology Officer; Office of Science and Technology Policy

DJ PATIL - Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist Office of Science and Technology Policy

May, 2016

PREFACE

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Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics, and Society

On 7 Feb, 2017 By admin 0 Comments

Jacob Metcalf, Emily F. Keller, Danah Boyd

Abstract:

The Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society was convened to bring together researchers from diverse fields who were thinking deeply about ethical, social and policy challenges associated with the rise of “big data” research and industry, with an eye toward developing recommendations about future directions for the field. 

 

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