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Sandra Wachter
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 43
Citations - 5743
Sandra Wachter is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Data Protection Act 1998 & General Data Protection Regulation. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 35 publications receiving 3618 citations. Previous affiliations of Sandra Wachter include Harvard University & The Turing Institute.
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Counterfactual Explanations Without Opening the Black Box: Automated Decisions and the GDPR
TL;DR: It is suggested data controllers should offer a particular type of explanation, unconditional counterfactual explanations, to support these three aims, which describe the smallest change to the world that can be made to obtain a desirable outcome, or to arrive at the closest possible world, without needing to explain the internal logic of the system.
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The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate:
Brent Mittelstadt,Patrick Allo,Mariarosaria Taddeo,Mariarosaria Taddeo,Sandra Wachter,Luciano Floridi,Luciano Floridi +6 more
TL;DR: This paper makes three contributions to clarify the ethical importance of algorithmic mediation, including a prescriptive map to organise the debate, and assesses the available literature in order to identify areas requiring further work to develop the ethics of algorithms.
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Counterfactual Explanations without Opening the Black Box: Automated Decisions and the Gdpr
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that explanations can, in principle, be offered without opening the black-box of algorithmic decision-making systems and that explanations serve as a minimal solution that bypasses the current technical limitations of interpretability, while striking a balance between transparency and the rights and freedoms of others.
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Why a Right to Explanation of Automated Decision-Making Does Not Exist in the General Data Protection Regulation
TL;DR: The problems show that the GDPR lacks precise language as well as explicit and well-defined rights and safeguards against automated decision-making, and therefore runs the risk of being toothless.
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Why a right to explanation of automated decision-making does not exist in the General Data Protection Regulation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a number of legislative and policy steps that, if taken, may improve the transparency and accountability of automated decision-making when the GDPR comes into force in 2018.