The US Supreme Court decided to consider if tech companies are immune from legal action arising from content delivered via recommender algorithms. Currently such automated decision making systems are immune, what will the Supreme Court decide? ARC Centre for Automated Decision-Making & Society theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'Clean rooms' for online data promise to give marketers consumers' surfing and shopping information while protecting privacy wsj.com/articles/adver… via The Wall Street Journal

This makes an interesting read - compendium of latest developments in the area of competition enforcement and policy in digital markets. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Out now: Sergio Genovesi's and my paper on #sustainableAI 'Acknowledging Sustainability in the Framework of Ethical Certification for AI' as part of the Special Issue of Sustainability 'Towards the Sustainability of AI' edited by Aimee van Wynsberghe et al.
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#Indonesia has a new Data Protection Law, which was just published in the official journal 2 days ago. Team work makes the dream work - and this is how we have an in depth summary and analysis of its key provisions ready for you. Here are some of my personal highlights: 1/

140,000 soccer fields of forest in one month. The Amazon, the lungs of the earth, being destroyed before our eyes.

If the Amazon goes it’s taking us with it.

#Iran : First images of Elnaz Rekabi on her return to #Tehran from Asian Games where the athlete caused global sensation by not wearing hijab while competing- large crowd welcomed her as hero at airport #الناز_رکابی

Elnaz Rekabi--the Iranian climber who refused to wear compulsory hejab while competing--is greeted as a hero at 5AM at Tehran airport after her plane lands from Seoul. Imprisoning her will only increase the Iranian nation's enormous admiration for her.

Exclusive: Scores of Google rivals want EU tech law used in antitrust case reuters.com/technology/exc…

Leaked documents show just how fast employees are leaving Amazon theverge.com/2022/10/17/234… via @Verge

In a historic move, Iranian athlete Elnaz Rekabi who represented Iran at the Asian Climbing Competitions finals in Seoul, competed without hijab, disobeying the Islamic Republic's restrictions for female athletes.

Top 1% of Americans (by wealth) own 53.1% of all stocks in United States; top 10% own almost 89% and bottom 50% own less than 1%
⁦Federal Reserve⁩ ⁦Jim Bianco biancoresearch.eth⁩

Once when I was young, around 8 or so, we had a garage sale. My siblings and I were killing time riding our bikes along the sidewalk and this guy stopped in. But he wasn't there to buy anything.

He went up to my mom, introduced himself and said he'd stopped because he saw us...

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 56% (+3)
CON: 20% (-4)
LDEM: 11% (-2)
GRN: 5% (+2)

via Redfield & Wilton Strategies, 16 Oct
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Urgent question in HoC. Labour leader Keir Starmer begins: 'To ask the prime minister...'

Penny Mordaunt stands up.

She then offers apologies to House as Liz Truss is 'detained on urgent business'.

Starmer: 'I guess under this govt everybody gets to be PM for 15 mins'.

.Future of Privacy Forum’s Malavika Raghavan analyzes the history of India’s now defunct Personal Data Protection Bill ( #PDP ), exploring possible reasons behind the withdrawal and what lies ahead for data protection. More in our thread. (1/4)