What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - When An Algorithm Raises Your Rent
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🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
One company’s software is helping set prices for apartments across the country. But when does an algorithm telling landlords how much to charge—by drawing on property data—cross the line from “handy tool” to “illegal price-fixing”?
Guest: Heather Vogell, reporter with ProPublica
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:37.7 | Heather, why don't you just go ahead and introduce yourself, tell me who you are and what you do. |
| 1:42.6 | I'm Heather Vogel, I'm a reporter with ProPublica and I've been investigating the rental market for |
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