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Big Data and Due Process: Toward a Framework to
Redress Predictive Privacy Harms
Kate Crawford
Microsoft Research; MIT Centre for Civic Media; NYU Information Law Institute, [email protected]
Jason M. Schultz
NYU School of Law, [email protected]
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Crawford, Kate and Schultz, Jason M., "Big Data and Due Process: Toward a Framework to Redress Predictive Privacy Harms" (2013). New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers.Paper 429.
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