Algorithms can be a digital star chamber– Frank Pasquale – Aeon
▻http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/judge-jury-and-executioner-the-unaccountable-algorithm
Online retailers live in fear of a ‘#Google Death Penalty’ – a sudden, mysterious drop in search-engine rankings if they do something judged fraudulent by Google’s #spam detection algorithms. Job applicants at Walmart in the US and other large companies take mysterious ‘personality tests’, which process their responses in undisclosed ways. And white-collar workers face CV-sorting software that may understate, or entirely ignore, their qualifications. One algorithmic CV analyser found all 29,000 people who applied for a ‘reasonably standard engineering position’ unqualified.
The infancy of the #internet is over. As online spaces mature, #Facebook, Google, #Apple, #Amazon, and other powerful corporations are setting the rules that govern #competition among journalists, writers, coders, and e-commerce firms.