Publications
Read now: Swiss Edition of the Automating Society Report 2020
How are AI-based systems being used by private companies and public authorities in Switzerland? The Automating Society Report 2020 by AlgorithmWatch and Bertelsmann Stiftung sheds light on what role a…
Data trusts in Germany and under the GDPR
The report by Anouk, Ruhaak, Mozilla Fellow at AlgorithmWatch, considers alternative approaches to data governance, specifically data trusts.
The compatibility of data trusts with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
By Dr. Michael Funke, JBB Lawyers In this legal analysis, data protection expert Michael Funke examines whether so-called data trusts can act as intermediaries for personal data, acquiring individual…
Out now: Automating Society Report 2020
How are AI-based systems being used by private companies and public authorities in Europe? The new report by AlgorithmWatch and Bertelsmann Stiftung sheds light on what role automated decision-making…
Europe wants to be a role model for technological responses to COVID-19. But it’s complicated.
Launch of our new report on 'Automated Decision-Making Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic'…
New report by AlgorithmWatch: Identity-management and citizen scoring in Ghana, Rwanda, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and China
report
A review of identity-management practices in five African countries shows that much of the continent is well on its way towards comprehensive biometric registration. It could enable comprehensive citi…
Atlas of Automation
AlgorithmWatch’s ‘Atlas of Automation’ provides an overview of ADM systems used in Germany that are relevant to participation. It is a compilation – in this case not of maps and graphics, but of topi…
Out now: “Automating Society” – our report on ADM in the EU
report
On 29 January we published our new report Automating Society – Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU, which was produced in collaboration with the Bertelsmann Stiftung and with the…
Ethics and algorithmic processes for decision making and decision support
working papers
Current ethical debates about the consequences of automation focus on the rights of individuals. But algorithmic processes exhibit a collective dimension. In our working paper, we therefore suggest wa…
