Solon Barocas

Cornell University

Assistant Professor

Ithaca, NY 14853

United States

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1.

Big Data's Disparate Impact

104 California Law Review 671 (2016)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 11 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2016
Solon Barocas and Andrew D. Selbst
Cornell University and Data & Society Research Institute
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big data, data mining, algorithms, discrimination, employment discrimination, Title VII, civil rights, disparate treatment, disparate impact, procedural fairness, substantive fairness, inequality

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Governing Algorithms: A Provocation Piece

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 04 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2013
Solon Barocas, Sophie Hood and Malte Ziewitz
Cornell University, New York University (NYU) and Cornell University
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algorithms, governance, automation, computation, big data, sociology, law, public policy, control

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Accountable Algorithms

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 165, 2017 Forthcoming, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2765268
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2016
Joshua A. Kroll, Joanna Huey, Solon Barocas, Edward W. Felten, Joel R. Reidenberg, David G. Robinson and Harlan Yu
University of California, Berkeley - School of Information, Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy, Cornell University, Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy, Fordham University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy
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algorithms, governance, accountability, internet, cyber, technology, bias, discrimination, computational methods, law, big data, computer science, code

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The Intuitive Appeal of Explainable Machines

87 Fordham Law Review 1085 (2018)
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2018
Andrew D. Selbst and Solon Barocas
Data & Society Research Institute and Cornell University
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algorithmic accountability, explanations, law and technology, machine learning, big data, privacy, discrimination

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Exploring or Exploiting? Social and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Experimentation in AI

Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning, 2016
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 04 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2016
Sarah Bird, Solon Barocas, Kate Crawford, Fernando Diaz and Hanna Wallach
Microsoft Corporation, Cornell University, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research and Microsoft Research New York City
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Autonomous Experimentation, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Ethics

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Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising

Proceedings Network and Distributed System Symposium, March 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Feb 2015
Vincent Toubiana, Arvind Narayanan, Dan Boneh, Helen Nissenbaum and Solon Barocas
Commission Nationale de L'informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), Princeton University, Stanford University, Cornell Tech and Cornell University
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privacy, software, advertising, tracking, online behavioral advertising, big data

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Designing Against Discrimination in Online Markets

32 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1183 (2017)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 12 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2018
Karen Levy and Solon Barocas
Cornell University and Cornell University
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platforms, bias, discrimination, design, policy

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Discriminating Tastes: Uber's Customer Ratings as Vehicles for Workplace Discrimination

Policy & Internet, 2017, DOI: 10.1002/poi3.153
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2017
Alex Rosenblat, Karen Levy, Solon Barocas and Tim Hwang
Data & Society Research Institute, Cornell University, Cornell University and Data & Society Research Institute
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platforms, data, discrimination, bias, inequality, ratings, sharing economy, algorithm

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On Notice: The Trouble with Notice and Consent

Proceedings of the Engaging Data Forum: The First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information, October 2009
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 21 Feb 2015
Solon Barocas and Helen Nissenbaum
Cornell University and Cornell Tech
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privacy, consent, big data, online behavioral advertising, tracking, cyberlaw, privacy policies

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Debiasing Desire: Addressing Bias and Discrimination on Intimate Platforms

Forthcoming in Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. v. 2 (CSCW) Article 73 (November 2018)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 01 Oct 2018
Jevan Hutson, Jessie Taft, Solon Barocas and Karen Levy
University of Washington, School of Law, Students, Cornell University - Cornell Tech NYC, Cornell University and Cornell University
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platforms, bias, discrimination, ethics, design, law, policy, online dating, intimacy

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Data & Civil Rights: Technology Primer

Data & Civil Rights Conference, October 2014
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 16 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2014
Solon Barocas, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan and Corrine Yu
Cornell University, Data & Society Research Institute, Data & Society Research Institute, New America Foundation - Open Technology Institute and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
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Data, metadata, big data, database, aggregation, algorithms, machine learning, data mining