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Ireland 🇮🇪 has one of the highest concentrations of data centers in the world. The expansion has reshaped the grid and deepened fossil fuel use. As 🇪🇺 pushes to triple data center capacity, Ireland offers a warning. Read our latest investigation with Tech Policy Press 👉:

AlgorithmWatch

What Ireland’s Data Center Crisis Means for the EU’s AI Sovereignty Plans - AlgorithmWatch

Ireland is now home to one of the highest concentrations of data centers in the world. What began as a quiet build-out of server farms around Dubli...

We have no idea what content is most viral on YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, or X – because they refuse to share basic data. On the DSA’s Birthday (Oct 4th) we've led a “mass data access request” along with @npub16pr8...crsg and DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory, where a series of ~20 orgs requested daily data on their top 1,000 most-viewed posts in EU Member States. Every single one refused. Join us in demanding platform transparency:

Mozilla Foundation

Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation

Social media platforms aren’t sharing what goes viral on their sites. Tell YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X to disclose their most-viewed c...

Auf einer gemeinsamen Veranstaltung haben wir – [@amnesty_digital_de](

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Amnesty Digital DE (@amnesty_digital_de@social.tchncs.de)

54 Posts, 49 Following, 1.57K Followers · Hier tootet die Themenkoordinationsgruppe Menschenrechte im Digitalen Zeitalter von Amnesty Internationa...

), @npub15qjg...3kl0, @npub1ak90...l8u5, Ulrich Kelber und @npub1rq7c...2kth – heute unsere gemeinsame Kritik an den Plänen zur biometrischen Überwachung dargestellt – und mit einem neuen Gutachten untermauert. Das gibt's übrigens u. a. hier:

AlgorithmWatch

Braucht die Polizei eine Datenbank zum biometrischen Abgleich? - AlgorithmWatch

Ist ein biometrischer Abgleich zwischen Aufnahmen von Überwachungskameras und im Internet verfügbaren Bildern ohne Verwendung einer Datenbank mö...

#Discrimination through AI in recruitment is a lose-lose scenario that cannot be solved on a technical level alone. ☝️ In order to prevent discrimination by AI-based recruiting systems, we worked with an interdisciplinary European consortium from academia, industry, and civil society (#FINDHR) to develop solutions that counteract this type of discrimination and therefore developed specific recommendations for policymakers:

Policy Makers – Findhr

“Hey AI, send Jane Doe a Signal message!” Not a particularly good idea – and part of a paradigm shift currently taking place through Agentic AI, as [@Mer__edith](

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Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith@mastodon.world)

1.17K Posts, 312 Following, 32.6K Followers · President of @signalapp

) told us.

The EU Digital Services Act is 3 years old! 🎂 But how’s its work to regulate online services going…? Here we unpack this question, plus our birthday present 🎁 to the DSA: A “mass data access request” with DSA 40 Data Access Collaboratory and @npub16pr8...crsg Foundation: 👉

AlgorithmWatch

Happy Birthday, Digital Services Act! – Time for a Reality Check - AlgorithmWatch

The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) celebrates its third birthday. This landmark digital regulation is meant to give a better understanding of h...