To study possibly racist algorithms, professors have to sue the US
Interesting...I would&#x27;ve guessed that this was referring to propietary algorithms used by the criminal justice system to determine recidivism [1], but it&#x27;s actually about pushing back against the CFAA, which may restrict researchers&#x27; ability to write scrapers and deploy bots (and create fake profiles on services).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-we-analyzed-the-compas-recidivism-algorithm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-we-analyzed-the-compa...</a>