Essay: A global vaccine database?
Writing from London, MAL FLETCHER says there are “huge potential downsides” to Tony Blair’s proposal for a global database of the vaccinated…
Australia to make Big Tech hand over misinformation data
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia’s media regulator will be able to force internet companies to provide internal data about how they have handled misinformation and disinformation, the latest measure by the country’s government to crack down on Big Tech. The Australian Communications and Media Authority will also be able to enforce an internet industry code on uncooperative […]
“Algorithms of oppression”: Big tech urged to combat discrimination
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nearly a decade has passed since Safiya Noble googled “Black girls” and found the search results were mostly pornographic – a discovery that drove her to explore how algorithms can perpetuate discrimination and inequality. Google went on to fix that search engine issue, but Noble said the problem is far from solved. […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘THE CIRCLE’ AN “INTRIGUING” TAKE ON THE CULT OF BIG TECH
DAVID ADAMS watches The Circle…