Interesting...I would've guessed that this was referring to propietary algorithms used by the criminal justice system to determine recidivism [1], but it's actually about pushing back against the CFAA, which may restrict researchers' ability to write scrapers and deploy bots (and create fake profiles on services).<p>[1] <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compas-recidivism-algorithm" rel="nofollow">https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...</a>
What does this have to do with racist algorithms? I know that Ars is big on pushing whatever the latest progressive agenda is, but the connection is tenuous even considering that.
This famously reminds me of this fiasco
<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/01/google-mistakenly-tags-black-people-as-gorillas-showing-limits-of-algorithms/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/01/google-mistakenly-tag...</a>