Algorithms and law

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The work Algorithms and law represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Algorithms and law

Statement of responsibility

edited by Martin Ebers and Susana Navas

Contributor

• Ebers, Martin, 1970-
• Navas, Susana, 1966-

Editor

• Ebers, Martin, 1970-
• Navas, Susana, 1966-

Subject

• Computer networks -- Law and legislation
• Computer networks -- Law and legislation
• Information storage and retrieval systems -- Law
• Information storage and retrieval systems -- Law
• Law -- Data processing
• Law -- Data processing

Language

eng

Summary

"Algorithms come in many different shapes and forms, ranging from software systems (e.g. data mining programs, medical diagnosis systems, price algorithms and expert trading systems) to embodied robots (e.g. self-driving cars, unmanned underwater vehicles, surgical robots, drones, personal and social robots) and open source machine learning systems.1 The increased use of these intelligent systems is changing our lives, our society, our economy - challenging at the same time the traditional boundaries of law. Algorithms are widely employed to make decisions that have increasingly far-reaching impacts on individuals and the society, leading potentially to manipulation, biases, censorship, social discrimination, violations of privacy, property rights, and more"--

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DLC

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography