Michiel de LangeJan 24, 2024
New blogpost: Software bugs that helped send innocent postal employees to prison known in advance https://www.bijt.org/wordpress/2024/01/24/software-bugs-that-helped-send-innocent-postal-employees-to-prison-known-in-advance/ #AlgorithmicHarm #GarbageInGarbageOut #SoftwareCity
Software bugs that helped send innocent postal employees to prison known in advance

Another grim case of how (faulty) software and algorithms can impact real people’s everyday lives in specific workplaces: Ars Technica writes that “Fujitsu software bugs that helped sen…

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Michiel de LangeNov 15, 2023
New blogpost: Landlords in Washington DC accused of using software to keep rent high https://www.bijt.org/wordpress/2023/11/15/landlords-in-washington-dc-accused-of-using-software-to-keep-rent-high/ #HousingCrisis #inequality #SoftwareCity
Landlords in Washington DC accused of using software to keep rent high

Ars Technica reports about a lawsuit filed against 14 DC landlords who are accused of having colluded “with a property management software firm to keep rent prices high in a city with a housing aff…

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