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April 30, 2018
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9:30 am Fraudulent Student Debt Federal Lawsuit @ Courtroom A, 15th Floor
Fraudulent Student Debt Federal Lawsuit @ Courtroom A, 15th Floor
Apr 30 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am
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Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos – Fraudulent Student Debt On April 30, 2018, the Court will also hear argument on Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction in a class-action on behalf of certain Corinthian borrowers (though the result of this case will set an important precedent for ALL former for-profit students). Through this motion, Plaintiffs seek an order stopping the Department of Education from partially denying these class members’ borrower defense applications and an order requiring the Department to grant them a full loan discharge as it was doing under its streamlined process before January … Continued
4:00 pm Algorithmic Curation, Filtering, and Prediction Wrestles with Ethics and Public Opinion @ UC Berkeley, South Hall
Algorithmic Curation, Filtering, and Prediction Wrestles with Ethics and Public Opinion @ UC Berkeley, South Hall
Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
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Christian Sandvig SPONSORED BY THE ALGORITHMIC FAIRNESS AND OPACITY GROUP (AFOG)AND THE CENTER FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE, AND SOCIETY (CSTMS). As the filtering and curation of everything has been taken over by computers, “fair algorithms” has become both a legal problem and a rallying cry. Researchers in machine learning are now trying to explicitly incorporate fairness into their conceptualization of the algorithmic systems that curate today’s job applicants, predict recidivism, offer housing, find rides, and filter social media. Commercial platforms that operate these systems have, belatedly and after a series of scandals, … Continued
April 30, 2018