Perhaps of interest:
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/how-linkedins-search-engine-…
"“Histories of discrimination can live on in digital platforms,” Kate
Crawford, a Microsoft researcher, wrote
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligences-white-guy-problem.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all>
in The New York Times earlier this year. “And if they go unquestioned, they
become part of the logic of everyday algorithmic systems.”"
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