In response to the brief filed by the DOJ and HUD, Andrew Soukup, an attorney for SafeRent, said the company aims to supply property managers and landlords with predictions to help them make good decisions but does not itself make housing decisions. “SafeRent does not decide whether to approve anyone's application for housing. Those decisions are made by property managers and landlords,” he said in a statement.
The Department of Justice’s intervention in the SafeRent case is one part of recent efforts by the US government to enforce civil rights law on algorithms that make important decisions about people’s lives. On the same day, the department announcedwith Meta for selling ads that allegedly violate the Fair Housing Act. The company has developed a system to reduce discrimination in Facebook ads and will remain under federal government supervision until 2026.
“Federal monitoring of Meta should send a strong signal to other tech companies that they too will be held accountable for failing to address algorithmic discrimination that runs afoul of our civil rights laws,” said Clarke, the Department of Justice civil rights division leader in a statement. Last year she worked with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to issueon how to avoid violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Together, those interventions suggest the DOJ is determined to enforce federal antidiscrimination law to protect people’s rights in the era of algorithms. “Obviously, advertising is different than tenant screening, but it puts these different industries on notice that they can't hide behind a lack of transparency anymore and that there is going to be greater accountability,” said Gilman, the University of Baltimore law professor.
The signal sent to the housing sector this week by the Department of Justice seems in line with other proclamations by the Biden administration on addressing the role AI can play in human rights abuses. Last year, the White House proposed an
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