By excluding the staff reps and shop stewards, and therefore the voice of workers, from audits and impact assessments, companies risk approving potentially highly discriminative algorithmic systems.
Across the world, a new wave of audits and/or impact assessments for digital technologies are popping up. None include workers in the process. This must change, argues this blog.
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