‘AI, insurance, discrimination and unfair differentiation. An overview and research agenda’
A new pre-print, better than the first version. Well, we think so :)
By Marvin van Bekkum Tom Heskes and me.
We’d love to hear your comments!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11892
#law #economics #tech #ai #insurance #discrimination
Europol. ‘Law enforcement disrupt world’s biggest ransomware operation
LockBit was the most deployed ransomware variant across the world.
In a significant breakthrough in the fight against cybercrime, law enforcement from 10 countries have disrupted the criminal operation of the LockBit ransomware group at every level, severely damaging their capability and credibility.’ https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/law-enforcement-disrupt-worlds-biggest-ransomware-operation #security #cybersecurity #tech
‘The share of India’s population living in multidimensional poverty has fallen to 11.28% in 2022-23 from 29.17% in 2013-14… Researchers estimate that a total of 248 million people have escaped multidimensional poverty in the last nine years.’ https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-malaria-vaccine-reforestation-china-poverty-india #economy #inequality #india #poverty
Hanson et al, ‘The strain on scientific publishing’
2016: 1.9 million articles
2022: 2.8 million articles
‘Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published... in 2022 the article total was 47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth, if any, in the number of practising scientists. Thus, publication workload per scientist (writing, reviewing, editing) has increased dramatically.’
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
#science #academia
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Fun! Tomorrow the conference 'Publiekrecht & digitalisering' (public law & digitisation).
I'm chairing a panel with Anna Berlee (OU), Egbert Dommering (UvA), Jurgen Goossens (UU) en Johan Wolswinkel (TiU)
https://www.ru.nl/over-ons/agenda/publiekrecht-digitalisering
Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, the non-discrimination authority: The Tax Authority is guilty of indirect discrimination in the childcare benefits affair. This emerges from the first three cases of parents investigated by the Institute and tested against the General Equal Treatment Act. The verdict is three times: prohibited indirect discrimination on grounds of ethnicity. https://www.mensenrechten.nl/actueel/nieuws/2023/10/2/toeslagen-oordelen #discrimination #bias #law #politics #netherlands
‘De Belastingdienst/Toeslagen heeft zich schuldig gemaakt aan indirecte discriminatie in de kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire. Dit blijkt uit de eerste 3 zaken van zogenoemde ‘toeslagenouders’ die het College voor de Rechten van de Mens heeft onderzocht en getoetst aan de Algemene Wet Gelijke Behandeling. Het oordeel luidt 3 keer: verboden indirect onderscheid op grond van ras.’
https://www.mensenrechten.nl/actueel/nieuws/2023/10/2/toeslagen-oordelen #discrimination #bias #law #politics #netherlands
‘Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all.’
https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/ #tech #google #law #advertising #antitrust #monopoly
In her PhD thesis, Nynke Brouwe ‘investigated how cyber insurance functions on the Dutch market, viewed from the current (legal) frameworks, the contents of cyber insurances, and the responsibilities of the actors operating in the insurance market.’ Open access. Book is in Dutch, but includes English summary
https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/237797
#tech #databreach #security #dataprotection #cybersecurity #insurance #privacy
'Fundamental rights assessment
of the framework for detection orders under the CSAM proposal', by Ot van Daalen at IViR. Thorough and well-written legal analysis. Highly recommended.
https://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/download/CSAMreport.pdf
#law #eu #security #cybersecurity #politics #cryptography #ai #tech
‘France must end the widespread racial profiling of people of black and north African heritage who are routinely stopped by police and asked to show their identity papers with no explanation, a lawyer for rights groups will argue at a historic court hearing in Paris on Friday.’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/29/france-faces-court-action-over-widespread-use-of-racial-profiling #police #racism #discrimination #law #politics #france
‘Following the EDPB’s binding dispute resolution decision, the Irish Data Protection Authority has issued a final decision, finding, in particular, that TikTok infringed the GDPR's principle of fairness when processing personal data relating to children between the ages of 13 and 17.’ €345 million fine, also for other GDPR breaches.
https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/following-edpb-decision-tiktok-ordered-eliminate-unfair-design-practices-concerning_en
#gdpr #privacy #tech #law #eu #politics
Dutch dating app Breeze asked the non-discrimination regulator, the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, whether they should be allowed to adjust their algorithm so that people with dark skin and of non-Dutch origin are introduced to other users as often as people with light skin and of Dutch origin. The regulator says: the adjustment is not only allowed, it is required. https://www.mensenrechten.nl/actueel/nieuws/2023/09/06/dating-app-breeze-mag-en-moet-algoritme-aanpassen-om-discriminatie-te-voorkomen #law #tech #ai #discrimination #humanrights #gdpr #bias #netherlands
Privacy on the frontpage.
‘The Dutch Tax Office has extensively retrieved personal data of taxpayers - including social media posts - from the internet, stored it in a computer system and used it in its monitoring and anti-fraud activities. This was done despite internal doubts about the legality of this and the "origin, accuracy and timeliness" of the stored data.’
#privacy #dataprotection #gdpr
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‘China's aggressive 'war against pollution' over the past decade has led to a 42% drop in pollution levels since 2013. This remarkable progress has added 26 months to the average Chinese citizen's lifespan. Measures include restrictions on car usage, bans on new coal plants in polluted areas, and mandated cuts in emissions. CNN’ https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-abortion-mexico-vaccine-indonesia-conservation-alaska/? #china #environment #climate
‘The European Court of Human Rights… found that the government of Bulgaria was violating European human rights law by failing to legally recognize same-sex couples… The court found that the Bulgarian government, in not recognizing the couple’s relationship, violated article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to private and family life.’ https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/09/08/court-rules-bulgaria-must-recognize-same-sex-relationships? #law #humanrights #privacy #LGBTQI #politics
‘In Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, the justice systems have recently decriminalized the interruption of a pregnancy at the federal level...
Behind the latest Latin American victory (Mexico), there was no luck — only an ambitious legal strategy that has been in the works for years.’
https://archive.md/emoF9
#law #humanrights #abortion #mexico #politics
Recommendations by academics and activists -
The AI Act and General Purpose AI: Key Recommendations to inform EU's AI Act Negotiations regarding General Purpose AI
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-act-general-purpose-ai/
Thank you @66d9397c for organising!
#ai #tech #law #chatgpt #aiact #eu #politics
‘Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”’
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html
#ukraine #russia #tech #internet
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