New America Site Merges Big Data, Civil Rights

New America's Open Technology Institute joined other entities to launch Datacivilrights.org. The site will be a resource that addresses how the "big data" phenomenon affects civil rights issues, New America said Tuesday in a news release. The site features talks by technologists and civil rights leaders, and background materials "that detail algorithmically driven, automated computer decision systems and their ability to help and hinder equal opportunity, fairness, and social justice," it said. New America partnered with The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Data & Society Research Institute, it said.