{"id":18812,"date":"2020-04-08T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18812"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:02","slug":"federal-court-rules-in-favor-of-umsi-professor-in-discrimination-research-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/08\/federal-court-rules-in-favor-of-umsi-professor-in-discrimination-research-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court rules in favor of UMSI professor in discrimination research case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"modern login form interface design with username and password\" class=\"wp-image-18815\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepik.com\/free-photos-vectors\/icon\">starline \/ www.freepik.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A federal court has cleared the way for academic researchers, computer scientists, and journalists to continue work that investigates online company practices for racial, gender or other discrimination. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/about-umsi\/news\/federal-court-rules-favor-umsi-professor-discrimination-research-case\">The ruling<\/a> means that those who research online companies no longer have to fear prosecution for the work they do to hold tech companies accountable for their practices, said&nbsp;<strong>Christian&nbsp;Sandvig<\/strong>, professor of information and director of the U-M Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit, filed against the Department of Justice by the American Civil Liberties Union, challenged a provision in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that made it a crime for researchers to set up false accounts to check for hidden discriminatory practices.  The lawsuit was filed on&nbsp;Sandvig&#8217;s behalf as a private citizen, not as a representative of U-M, but the outcome has implications for researchers, computer scientists and journalists across the U.S. who were threatened with legal repercussions for violating a website&#8217;s terms of service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court has cleared the way for academic researchers, computer scientists, and journalists to continue work that investigates online company practices for racial, gender or other discrimination. The ruling means that those who research online companies no longer have to fear prosecution for the work they do to hold tech companies accountable for their practices, said&nbsp;Christian&nbsp;Sandvig, professor\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/08\/federal-court-rules-in-favor-of-umsi-professor-in-discrimination-research-case\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[199,188,130],"class_list":["post-18812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-law","tag-people","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-e1588468210882.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-e1588468210882.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-e1588468210882.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-665x444.jpg",665,444,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6719-600x400-1-e1588468210882.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A federal court has cleared the way for academic researchers, computer scientists, and journalists to continue work that investigates online company practices for racial, gender or other discrimination. 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