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The year algorithms escaped quarantine: 2020 in review
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By Nicolas Kayser-Bril • kayser-bril@algorithmwatch.org • PGP Key Amid the Covid pandemic, governments and corporations stepped up the deployments of automated systems. Civil society initiatives attem…
“We must save privacy from privacy itself”
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Michele Loi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. He argues that proponents of privacy should not put privacy above health – else risk sliding into irrelevance. Not once I have se…
Automating societies: Nine predictions for 2020
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A few days before 2020, AlgorithmWatch makes nine predictions for the new year. Twelve months from now, we will come back to them and assess our forecasting skills.
The year the wrong Amazon burnt: 2019 in review
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As the hype around “artificial intelligence” leveled off, the impact of automated decision-making made itself seen. Regulators and civil society fought hard to rein in Big Tech, but much remains to be…
Controversial service that ranked job seekers based on personal emails folds following AlgorithmWatch investigation
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A Finnish company that automatically parsed the personal emails of job applicants to assess their corporate “fit” discontinued its service after reports by AlgorithmWatch and others raised questions a…
