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I somehow missed that #Spain will have its own Agencia de Supervisión de la IA at the end of the year. Is there a good article in English about this (haven't found one) or should we write it?
Chinese platforms combine automated punishment with manual humiliation: To get their account back after a ban on WeChat or Weibo, users must send handwritten notes of apologies.
https://restofworld.org/2022/handwritten-wechat-apology-letters/
France to deploy cameras to automatically check that motor vehicles are allowed to enter cities. (One person in the comments points out that some charities operate older vehicles but have exemptions, and might be unfairly sanctioned.)
La réalité peut parfois revêtir des airs de science-fiction. Des caméras intelligentes vont être installées à l’entrée des villes françaises pour vérifier si les automobilistes sont autorisés à circuler en leur sein. À défaut, les...
The Guardian did a grassroots audit of the TikTok algorithm (n=3). Nothing new there, but interesting to read how regular users think of "the algorithm".
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/06/tiktok-alogrithm-experiment-new-accounts
What happens when an automated system targets the rich?
Belgian police announced a test to detect people who text while driving. Most if not all media outlets frame the move as illegal, e.g.
I don't remember any such outcry for other similar projects in Belgium (e.g. the Briefcam software deployed at Kortrijk) that targeted the poor.
Lately I've been interviewing staff reps and #workers about the #digitalisation of #publicservices in the UK. To be honest I am appalled. Here's why - a 🧵
1️⃣ The digital systems some are required to use are so full of mistakes that the workers have to fill in information in analogue systems parallel to the digital ones. That's double work but not double the time.
AOC to Musk: "You’re a union buster with an ego problem who pockets the change from underpaying and mistreating people."
She claims after this her notifications no longer worked. And very few people would be surprised.
AOC: "why should people pay $8 just for their app to get bricked when they say something you don’t like?"
That sweet spot between AI snake oil, destructive manhood and stupidity: Car manufacturer uses emotion analysis to maximize "driving pleasure"
The Dutch Health Authority wants to collect data on mental health patients to automatically assess the "performance" of care. A civil society coalition plans to sue.
https://bijvoorbaatverdacht.nl/platform-burgerrechten-steunt-ggz-verzet-tegen-datahonger-nza/
Het Platform Burgerrechten sluit zich aan bij de actiegroep die zich verzet tegen een nieuwe aanval op het beroepsgeheim en de patiëntprivacy in de geestelijke gezondheidszorg. De NZa verplicht therapeuten gevoelige medische informatie over hun cliënten aan te leveren via een indringende vragenlijst. De eerste stappen richting een rechtszaak worden gezet. De Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit (NZa) […]
Did you know that the European Union had an official Mastodon instance where only official EU institutions could open an account?
https://social.network.europa.eu/explore
No need to pay for a blue checkmark, accounts on this instance are, by definition, officials.
That’s Fediverse done right!
Christina J. Colclough
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