The EU Data Governance Act

The EU Data Governance Act

Three and a half years after the entry into force of the GDPR, the European Commission releases a new ambitious legal framework about data, the Data Governance Act. It aims to encourage the sharing and re-use of data across sectors while protecting the economic...
Automating Society Report 2020

Automating Society Report 2020

Journalists and experts from across Europe contributed to the new Algorithm Watch annual report Automating Society, covering automated decision making systems deployment in 16 countries. For each, you can find a description of the most (ab)used ADMS and related...
The European blockchain for social good landscape

The European blockchain for social good landscape

The European Science Hub released the most comprehensive report existing about the status of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) for social and public good in Europe. The characteristics of 131 blockchain projects are reviewed with a statistical analysis and...
Towards an algorithmic right inspired by feminism

Towards an algorithmic right inspired by feminism

Last week I presented my work on the gender aspects of automating public services at the MA in Algorithmic Right and Data Governance of the University of Nice, upon invitation of its director Caroline Lequesne Roth. My objective was to give students a feminism lens to...
Facebook wearables and the urge of ambient privacy

Facebook wearables and the urge of ambient privacy

Facebook has a new research project, Aria. Under the pretext of leading the way to the next generation of AR and VR wearables, it brings the problem of privacy to a whole new level, space. In a way, we can thank them. Maybe it will help to accelerate the birth of a...