data access

Dutch court rejects Uber drivers’ ‘robo-firing’ charge but tells Ola to explain algo-deductions

Uber has had a good result against litigation in the Netherlands, where its European business is headquartered, that had alleged it uses algorithms to terminate drivers — but which the court has

Privacy not a blocker for ‘meaningful’ research access to platform data, says report

European lawmakers are eyeing binding transparency requirements for Internet platforms in a Digital Services Act (DSA) due to be drafted by the end of the year. But the question of how to create gover

Europe eyeing direct access to cloud services for police data requests

In the wake of a spate of terror attacks across Europe, regional interior ministers have been talking tough on tech. Encryption is one technology that's been under fire from certain quarters. There ha

We need to talk about AI and access to publicly funded data-sets

If you think Google has a controversial reputation at this point in its business evolution, buckle up because things are really stepping up a gear -- as its machine learning DeepMind division pushes f