How Big Tech Charms and Bullies European Politicians, Journalists and Academics
Twitter’s algorithmic bias bug bounty could be the way forward, if regulators step in
Under Facebook’s thumb: Platforms must stop suppressing public interest research
AlgorithmWatch forced to shut down Instagram monitoring project after threats from Facebook
Making sense of digital contact tracing apps for the next pandemics
DataSkop: Investigating YouTube’s algorithm during Germany’s election campaign
Digital contact tracing apps: do they actually work? A review of early evidence
Open letter calling for a global ban on biometric recognition technologies that enable mass and discriminatory surveillance
EU Commission asks foxes to stop eating chickens but does not build fence
“We’re looking for cases of discrimination through algorithms in Germany.”
Image classification algorithms at Apple, Google still push racist tropes
Reclaim Your Face – A European Citizens Initiative to ban biometric mass surveillance
Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data
Automating Society 2020 – Country issues Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland & Spain
Politicians can do well on Instagram. Political posts, less so.
In Berlin, Google Maps and TomTom encourage car drivers to disregard the law
New project launched: Tracing the tracers. Monitoring and analyzing ADM systems used to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Presentation of the French and Spanish country issues of the Automating Society Report
The Insta-mafia: How crooks mass-report users for profit
Read now: Swiss Edition of the Automating Society Report 2020
Now available: The German edition of the Automating Society Report 2020
Register now: Launch event of the German edition of the Automating Society Report on 25 January 2021
The year algorithms escaped quarantine: 2020 in review
The DSA proposal is a good start. Now policymakers must ensure that it has teeth.
Despite transparency, the Nutri-Score algorithm faces strong resistance
