The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

By construction, the world of big data is siloed and segmented and segregated so that successful people, like myself - technologists, well-educated white people, for the most part - benefit from big data, and it's the people on the other side of the economic spectrum, especially people of color, who suffer from it. They suffer from it individually, at different times, at different moments. They never get a clear explanation of what actually happened to them because all these scores are secret and sometimes they don't even know they're being scored.

I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.

I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.