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Costly birthplace: discriminating insurance practice

Two residents in Rome with exactly the same driving history, car, age, profession, and number of years owning a driving license may be charged a different price when purchasing car insurance. Why? Because of their place of birth, according to a recent study.

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Fixing Online Forms Shouldn’t Wait Until Retirement

Inside Poland’s stay-at-home “selfie” app

European Council and Commission in agreement to narrow the scope of the AI Act

Facebook goes after the creator of InstaPy, a tool that automates Instagram likes

Marine National Park

National parks near Marseilles deploy automated, live video surveillance against poachers

An English police force created its own ethics committee and it’s totally not ethics washing, they say.

YouTube cleaned its ‘news’ section… with content from Axel Springer

Instagram algorithm: Süddeutsche publishes results of data analysis

LinkedIn automatically rates “out-of-country” candidates as “not fit” in job applications

How Big Tech Charms and Bullies European Politicians, Journalists and Academics

AlgorithmWatch forced to shut down Instagram monitoring project after threats from Facebook

A Swedish town bought an AI to spot children at risk, but decided against deploying it

In Catalonia, the RisCanvi algorithm helps decide whether inmates are paroled

Image classification algorithms at Apple, Google still push racist tropes

Greek camps for asylum seekers to introduce partly automated surveillance systems

How French welfare services are creating ‘robo-debt’

Europeans can’t talk about racist AI systems. They lack the words.

Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data

Politicians can do well on Instagram. Political posts, less so.

In Berlin, Google Maps and TomTom encourage car drivers to disregard the law

The Insta-mafia: How crooks mass-report users for profit

Flush with EU funds, Greek police to introduce live face recognition before the summer

Medical devices using AI/ML are poorly regulated: study

China’s social credit system was due by 2020 but is far from ready

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