Algorithmic Accountability
What is Algorithmic Accountability?
The principle that organisations developing or deploying algorithms are responsible for the outcomes those algorithms produce. Algorithmic accountability requires monitoring for bias, errors, and unintended consequences.
Terms that appear alongside algorithmic accountability
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as algorithmic accountability. The number is how many controls name both.
- accountability 4 shared controls
- audit 3 shared controls
- transparency 2 shared controls
- governance 2 shared controls
- data protection 2 shared controls
- gdpr 2 shared controls
- data quality 2 shared controls
- quality audit 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern algorithmic accountability
What the standards actually require on algorithmic accountability
Requirements naming algorithmic accountability across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
GRI governance + 2024-2025 pipeline. GOVERNANCE: GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) - independent international organization founded 1997 + headquartered Amsterdam Netherlands.
GRI-Governance-GSSB-2024-2025-Pipeline · GRI Governance (GSSB + Board), 2024-2025 Pipeline and Interoperability Initiative →Global CBPR Forum 2024-2025 status + pipeline. UK ACCESSION 2024: United Kingdom acceded April 2024 + first non-APEC member; ICO + DSIT signed accession; first wave of UK-certified Accountability Agents accredited;
CBPR-2024-2025-UK-NewJurisdictions-AI-PEP · Global CBPR Forum: 2024-2025 Update Pipeline - UK 2024, AI Integration, PEP, ASEAN MCC →Sections 10-11 of DPDP Act 2023 establish enhanced obligations on entities designated as Significant Data Fiduciaries (SDFs). Section 10 Significant Data Fiduciary: Central Government may notify Data Fiduciary or class of Data Fiduciaries as SDF having regard...
DPDP-SignificantDataFiduciary-SDF-Sec10-DPO-IndependentAuditor-DPIA-Algorithmic · DPDP Act Sections 10-11 + Significant Data Fiduciary (SDF) + Data Protection Officer + Independent Data Auditor + DPIA + Algorithmic Software Audit + Privacy by Design + Records of Processing Activities →Questions people ask about algorithmic accountability
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