Blog posts by Nandita Sampath

Every single day, algorithms are being used by institutions — from hospitals and schools to landlords and law enforcement — to make big decisions about us. In a new paper, Opening Black Boxes: Addressing Legal Barriers to Public Interest Algorithmic Auditing, we explore the “black box” nature of algorithms and how they can prevent meaningful

As part of Black History Month, CR is highlighting some of the consumer issues that disproportionately affect Black communities. We have witnessed the troubling ways in which discrimination and bias from the analog world have migrated to the digital space. Algorithmic discrimination occurs when an automated decision system repeatedly creates unfair or inaccurate outcomes for