To recap: (A1) Beneath corporate secrecy and user technical illiteracy, a fundamental source of opacity in “algorithms” and “machine learning” is the complexity of scale, especially scale of data inputs. (Burrell, 2016) (A2) The opacity of the operation of companies using consumer data makes those consumers unable to engage with them as informed market actors. … Continue reading The Crevasse: a meditation on accountability of firms in the face of opacity as the complexity of scale