How do you measure fairness without access to demographic data?

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Hi all! I'm working on a paper about measuring algorithmic fairness in cases where you don't have direct access to demographic data (for example, if you want to see whether a lender is discriminating against a particular race but the lender is not collecting/releasing race data of loan applicants).

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