Amazon Doesn’t Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It?

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* The same-day delivery gap. In this case, I doubt there’s any racist motive, but this is an another example of how more and better data, can actually lead to more and “better” levels of discrimination, i.e. profit-relevant profiling that can exacerbate “disparate impacts” for particular groups; which in this case means residents of certain majority-black neighborhoods having to wait twice as long to receive their Amazon purchases.

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I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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