CHAPTER 4
Reclaim Data Rights for People
You should be protected from abusive data practices via built-in protections, and you should have agency over how data about you is used.
—Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
Talent is randomly distributed across society, but opportunity is not. Data can be used as an alternative way to qualify people for jobs, replacing the biases that underlie many hiring decisions.1 When the Covid-19 pandemic started, Catherine Booker was looking for a job. She had graduated from college in 2019 with a degree in intercultural communications and Spanish. She wanted an engaging and fulfilling career, and she thought she might learn to code. There was only one problem: as a young woman of color who had never taken ...
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