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View article: Accountability Capture: How Record-Keeping to Support AI Transparency and Accountability (Re)shapes Algorithmic Oversight
Accountability Capture: How Record-Keeping to Support AI Transparency and Accountability (Re)shapes Algorithmic Oversight Open
Accountability regimes typically encourage record-keeping to enable the transparency that supports oversight, investigation, contestation, and redress. However, implementing such record-keeping can introduce considerations, risks, and cons…
View article: Accountability Capture: How Record-Keeping to Support AI Transparency and Accountability (Re)shapes Algorithmic Oversight
Accountability Capture: How Record-Keeping to Support AI Transparency and Accountability (Re)shapes Algorithmic Oversight Open
Accountability regimes typically encourage record-keeping to enable the transparency that supports oversight, investigation, contestation, and redress. However, implementing such record-keeping can introduce considerations, risks, and cons…
View article: Mind The Gap: Designers and Standards on Algorithmic System Transparency for Users
Mind The Gap: Designers and Standards on Algorithmic System Transparency for Users Open
Many call for algorithmic systems to be more transparent, yet it is often unclear for designers how to do so in practice. Standards are emerging that aim to support designers in building transparent systems, e.g by setting testable transpa…
View article: A Room With an Overview: Toward Meaningful Transparency for the Consumer Internet of Things
A Room With an Overview: Toward Meaningful Transparency for the Consumer Internet of Things Open
As our physical environments become ever-more connected, instrumented, and automated, it can be increasingly difficult for users to understand what is happening within them and why. This warrants attention; with the pervasive and physical …
View article: Navigating the Audit Landscape: A Framework for Developing Transparent and Auditable XR
Navigating the Audit Landscape: A Framework for Developing Transparent and Auditable XR Open
Funding Information: The Compliant & Accountable Systems Group acknowledges the financial support of UK Research & Innovation (grants EP/P024394/1, EP/R033501/1, ES/T006315/1), The Alan Turing Institute, and Microsoft, through the Microsof…
View article: Disclosure by Design: Designing information disclosures to support meaningful transparency and accountability
Disclosure by Design: Designing information disclosures to support meaningful transparency and accountability Open
Funding Information: We acknowledge the financial support of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P024394/1 and EP/R033501/1) and Microsoft through the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre.
View article: Auditable Augmented/Mixed/Virtual Reality
Auditable Augmented/Mixed/Virtual Reality Open
Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality (XR) technologies are becoming increasingly pervasive. However, the contextual nature of XR, and its tight coupling of the digital and physical environments, brings real propensity for loss and harm. Th…
View article: Workshop on Reviewable and Auditable Pervasive Systems (WRAPS)
Workshop on Reviewable and Auditable Pervasive Systems (WRAPS) Open
Pervasive systems are increasingly being deployed in new and innovative ways – be it in our homes, vehicles, or public spaces. Such systems have the potential to bring a wide range of benefits, blending advanced functionality with the phys…
View article: Monitoring AI Services for Misuse
Monitoring AI Services for Misuse Open
Given the surge in interest in AI, we now see the emergence of Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS). AIaaS entails service providers offering remote access to ML models and capabilities at arms-length', through networked APIs. Such…
View article: Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny
Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny Open
Though discussions of data protection have focused on the larger, more established organisations, startups also warrant attention. This is particularly so for tech startups, who are often innovating at the ‘cutting‐edge’—pushing the bounda…
View article: Towards an accountable Internet of Things: A call for reviewability
Towards an accountable Internet of Things: A call for reviewability Open
As the IoT becomes increasingly ubiquitous, concerns are being raised about how IoT systems are being built and deployed. Connected devices will generate vast quantities of data, which drive algorithmic systems and result in real-world con…
View article: A Call for Auditable Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality
A Call for Auditable Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Open
XR (Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality) technologies are growing in prominence. However, they are increasingly being used in sectors and in situations that can result in harms. As such, this paper argues the need for auditability to beco…
View article: Decentralized data processing: personal data stores and the GDPR
Decentralized data processing: personal data stores and the GDPR Open
• When it comes to online services, users have limited control over how their personal data is processed. This is partly due to the nature of the business models of those services, where data is typically stored and aggregated in data cent…
View article: What lies beneath: transparency in online service supply chains
What lies beneath: transparency in online service supply chains Open
There is a noticeable trend towards the increased centralisation of Internet-based services. Though much focus is on the dominance of organisations such as Facebook, Google and Netflix, popular consumer-facing services, there has been cons…
View article: What lies beneath: transparency in online service supply chains
What lies beneath: transparency in online service supply chains Open
There is a noticeable trend towards the increased centralisation of Internet-based services. Though much focus is on the dominance of organisations such as Facebook, Google and Netflix, popular consumer-facing services, there has been cons…
View article: Automating Dynamic Consent Decisions for the Processing of Social Media Data in Health Research
Automating Dynamic Consent Decisions for the Processing of Social Media Data in Health Research Open
Social media have become a rich source of data, particularly in health research. Yet, the use of such data raises significant ethical questions about the need for the informed consent of those being studied. Consent mechanisms, if even obt…
View article: Decision Provenance: Harnessing Data Flow for Accountable Systems
Decision Provenance: Harnessing Data Flow for Accountable Systems Open
Demand is growing for more accountability regarding the technological systems that increasingly occupy our world. However, the complexity of many of these systems — often systems-of-systems — poses accountability challenges. This is becaus…
View article: RECLAIMING Data
RECLAIMING Data Open
Data protection regulations generally afford individuals certain rights over\ntheir personal data, including the rights to access, rectify, and delete the\ndata held on them. Exercising such rights naturally requires those with data\nmanag…
View article: Reclaiming Data: Overcoming app identification barriers for exercising data protection rights
Reclaiming Data: Overcoming app identification barriers for exercising data protection rights Open
Data protection regulations generally afford individuals certain rights over their personal data, including the rights to access, rectify, and delete the data held on them. Exercising such rights naturally requires those with data manageme…