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Accountability and computer decision systems

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Are designers responsible for all of the uses of the systems they create?

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 38, Issue 12
            Dec. 1995
            86 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/219663
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