Observing and Recommending from a Social Web with Biases
  The research question this report addresses is: how, and to what extent, those directly involved with the design, development and employment of a specific black box algorithm can be certain that it is not unlawfully discriminating (directly and/or indirectly) against particular persons with protected characteristics (e.g. gender, race and ethnicity)? 
Steffen Staab and Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon and Laura Carmichael
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