The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large pa….

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical..

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance..

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers..

There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful.".

With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with ….

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street..

I set up a company, an algorithmic auditing company myself. I have no clients..

The disconnect I was experiencing was that people hated Wall Street, but they loved tech..

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing..

The Facebook algorithm designers chose to let us see what our friends are talking about. They chose to show us, in some sense, more of the same. And ….

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff..

I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially..

An insurance company might say, "Tell us more about yourself so your premiums can go down." When they say that, they're addressing the winners, not t….

Evidence of harm is hard to come by..

We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that th….

Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does..

When I think about whether I want to take a job, I don't just think about whether it's technically interesting, although I do consider that. I also c….

By construction, the world of big data is siloed and segmented and segregated so that successful people, like myself - technologists, well-educated w….

I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projec….

That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we thin….