Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne [...]
to plant a covert alley
how covert matters may be best disclosed
whether of open war or covert guile
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[...]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.