2022-01-09
“The local councilors, including those who voted in favor of the data center, engaged with the company for almost two years prior to the vote — but without knowing that “Tulip,” the mysterious entity they'd been negotiating with, was Facebook.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
BuzzFeed News
A look at Meta's covert push to build a data center in the Netherlands, including codenaming the project, in an attempt to minimize public scrutiny and backlash
2020-03-11
At this stage, it's 100% on our governments to admit this was a badly structured tender, which has informed a badly executed process - one that should have been shut down a long time ago. Surreal it's still going on. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs scales back Toronto smart city project prompted by local privacy critics, who argue it exploits people's data from the physical world
Faced with an array of opponents for its sensor-laden city of tomorrow in Toronto, a Google sibling has dramatically dialed back plans. Tweets: @rafael_a_calvo , @mikethebbop , @bh...
2019-11-27
Been thinking a lot on the current governance tensions we face, which are so well framed in this @FrankPasquale piece. Overriding thought I keep coming back to: the moderates/civility/enabler crew is poised to be dangerous as ever. No surprise but yeah. https://lpeblog.org/...
Law and Political Economy
A look at the state of AI accountability research, which is focused not just on improving existing systems but also on whether such systems should ever be used
and, if so, who gets to govern them”, writes @FrankPasquale https://lpeblog.org/...
“Second wavers have helped slow down AI and robotics deployment enough so that first wavers have more time and space to deploy constructive reforms.” @FrankPasquale https://lpeblog.org/...
Law and Political Economy
A look at the state of AI accountability research, which is focused not just on improving existing systems but also on whether such systems should ever be used
and, if so, who gets to govern them”, writes @FrankPasquale https://lpeblog.org/...