2018-01-21-datta18a.md

title	Discrimination in Online Advertising: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry
section	Contributed Papers
abstract	We explore ways in which discrimination may arise in the targeting of job-related advertising, noting the potential for multiple parties to contribute to its occurrence. We then examine the statutes and case law interpreting the prohibition on advertisements that indicate a preference based on protected class, and consider its application to online advertising. We focus on its interaction with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides interactive computer services with immunity for providing access to information created by a third party. We argue that such services can lose that immunity if they target ads toward or away from protected classes without explicit instructions from advertisers to do so.
layout	inproceedings
series	Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
id	datta18a
month	0
tex_title	Discrimination in Online Advertising: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry
firstpage	20
lastpage	34
page	20-34
order	20
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author	given family Amit Datta given family Anupam Datta given family Jael Makagon given family Deirdre K. Mulligan given family Michael Carl Tschantz
date	2018-01-21
address
publisher	PMLR
container-title	Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency
volume	81
genre	inproceedings
issued	date-parts 2018 1 21
pdf	http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/datta18a/datta18a.pdf
extras	label link Supplementary PDF http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/datta18a/datta18a-supp.pdf