What would Malcolm X say about Google and algorithm bias in the form of racial profiling?



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March 13 - update BBC reports more research on the same topic... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21322183

As widely reported based in the original The Huffington Post article and the more recent one in The Telegraph.

The long and short of the story is that new clean accounts with different names get served different ads, and it appears to be repeatable.  The FUD community loves to quote an old Eric Schmidt video discussing how important knowing your real name is for their advertising purposes.
On both occasion Google has said "We do not use names to serve ads. We do not use racial, ethnic, or sexual orientation to serve ads. Our system uses terms in the content of an email on the assumption that the user may be interested in ads on the same subject. For example, if someone mentions ‘Eid’ in an email, our computer algorithms would assume the person could be interested in Eid-related ads."
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What is far more interesting is the 280+ comments on the telegraph article and the range of comments which is what the image above shows a summary of……