Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Gmail Accused of Racial Profiling

It all started last year, when tech journalist Nathan Newman conducted an experiment with Gmail. Newman's experiment, while not exactly scientifically conducted, yielded some interesting results: the email service would give very different targeted ads to people based on ethnic-sounding names. For instance, when writing about buying a car, Jake...

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