In 2021 Utrecht University we developed the Fundamental Rights & Algorithms Impact Assessment (FRAIA), commissioned by Ministerie van BZK. Now, we looked into the use & implementation of FRAIA for 15 government algorithms. The report FRAIA in action" is now available: government.nl/documents/repo…

Academics will write "interestingly" and then impart the driest piece of information you have ever heard in your life

BREAKING: Brazil court says anyone caught using a VPN to access X will be fined up to $8,874 per day.

Today's work is done. Signed a contract with Hart Publishing for a book titled as "Contrarian Jurists — The Story of Comparative Law and How Collisions Shaped It" due to be published in 2026. This will be a fun book to pen.

If you want to know what’s going on with France and Telegram, this podcast is the most informative thing out there for now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mod… (Yes, I’m on it. But I learned more from recording it than I have in the previous week of trying to figure this out.)

Catalina Goanta x.com/duolingo/statu…

Time is a thief

I’ll be talking about #children and #smartphones on ⁦BBC Panorama⁩ tomorrow - BBC1 Monday at 8pm, for UK audiences #DigitalFutures4Children ⁦LSE Media & Communications⁩ ⁦LSE⁩ ⁦5Rights Foundation⁩

you legally can't bully me for the next 30 days

We’re having a We Robot salon in Europe. October 17 in Berlin. Please join!

This is exactly our point in this short paper

Damning report out today from Worker Info Exchange, revealing the dire need for public data on safety, labour, and environmental impacts of gig economy platforms like Uber & Deliveroo. I'm pleased to have contributed (w/ Jake Stein) to some of the data analysis - more soon!

🚨Have you ever worried about respondents in your online panels who take many other online surveys and tasks daily? I will present a paper at #APSA2024 measuring the prevalence of these professionals and investigating their effects on the quality of online panels. Quick 🧵

Interested in writing a short paper on interdisciplinary legal studies? Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at HKU is creating a digital encyclopedia covering topics related to interdisciplinary legal studies. 👇 cils.law.hku.hk/law-and/

So sad to miss this year’s Gikii but wishing everyone a wonderful conference! 🫶Lilian Edwards 🫶Andres Guadamuz 🫶

More context on here.. US right wing influencers framing themselves as victims. Besides this absolutely ludicrous explanation of why they run these stories.. there also was no disclosure of sponsorship theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

I am stoked that European Research Council (ERC) is funding my research on Designing Social Media Recommendation Algorithms for Societal Good (DeSiRe)! With a team of researchers working with me Uni Graz/University of Graz we will try to figure out how to make social media better. What are we going to do? 🧵 1/14

Fascinated by this TikTok of a woman who ordered a “croissant lamp” of temu and was surprised it had ants crawling all over it on a hot day only to realise it was a real croissant that had been hollowed out and covered in resin

Remember that one time TeamYouTube told Charlie they were "not going to die on this hill" for Community Guideline strikes over the infamous spongebob roadrage video? CJ Reynolds and I published a paper on this + how creators make sense of and challenge YouTube policies