We are thrilled to announce our work with Colorado’s Division of Insurance! ORCAA will help with implementation of the state’s landmark law SB21-169, which takes on unfair discrimination in insurance in the context of big data and algorithms.

“If you had a human bureaucratic process 15 years ago, it probably is being run by an algorithm now,” says data scientist and author Cathy O’Neil

This idea is getting a lot of airtime recently, but sadly there is no such easy fix…

Voyager, a tech company whose clients include police, claim they can predict a person’s criminality using Fb and IG data. Can they be believed?

Spoiler alert: it’s not a minor tweak…

CEO Cathy O’Neil testified today before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about how social media algorithms work and how they push users towards “rabbit holes” of extreme content.

CEO Cathy O’Neil writes in Bloomberg Opinion that nobody can police massive social media algorithms like Facebook’s News Feed in their entirety — they are simply too big and far-reaching. But regulators could start by forcing companies to demonstrate they are not committing some specific harms.

CEO Cathy O’Neil writes in Bloomberg Opinion that Facebook’s “researchers” — whose studies show Instagram harms teenagers — are really doing marketing, not science.