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Authors and Affiliations

1. Kate Crawford is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a senior research fellow at New York University, New York, USA.,

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2. Ryan Calo is an assistant professor of law and of information science (by courtesy), and faculty co-director of the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,

   Ryan Calo

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