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Companies are extracting vast troves of online data through unlawful web scraping to build their generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in a way that is enabling a mass invasion of privacy, making these systems unlawful by design.
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After a series of high-profile court defeats, the European Commission has tightened internal rules and guidance governing access to documents. Civil society warns that the combined effect is to limit practical access to documents in areas such as competition enforcement, mergers and digital regulation, where transparency is vital to public scrutiny.
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Il s’agit de l’une des pratiques les plus scandaleuses des entreprises d’IA qui agissent au mépris des droits humains.
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“Las empresas están recopilando enormes cantidades de datos en Internet, mediante prácticas, en muchos casos ilegales, de extracción masiva de contenidos, para desarrollar sus productos de inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa. Este modelo propicia violaciones generalizadas de la privacidad, lo que hace que estos sistemas sean ilegales desde su diseño”, afirma Amnistía Internacional.
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An investigation examines how anonymous Wikipedia editing may have reshaped public perceptions of Al Jazeera, influencing search engines, AI systems, and narratives surrounding Qatar’s state-funded media network.
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Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re signing explicitly says they can opt-out. Records sharing between unaffiliated providers through these networks can benefit patients, but it can also harm patients. There’s not much patients can do to limit the risks of their data being available across networks, except by aggressively pursuing opt-outs when providers offer them. Turns out, that can be pretty hard to do.
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As conflict continues in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and elsewhere, the cost is being recorded not only in deaths and displacement, but also in ruined libraries, mosques, churches, museums, archives and historic neighbourhoods. For women in war zones, heritage sites can go beyond worship and history. They are places of gendered socialising.
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A Ukrainian Wikipedian explains how war, disinformation, and dwindling contributors are testing Wikipedia’s ability to maintain truth in real time.
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The humanitarian sector is losing its memory. Funding cuts, closures, and the slow decay of digital infrastructure are all destroying archives, datasets, and records. A new global research initiative wants to find out how much has already gone and what can still be saved.
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When education data fails, the children most likely to be excluded are not just the ones out of school. There are also those who are completely missing from the systems meant to find them. This is why data gaps are not simply a technical issue, they are a structural driver of exclusion. If a child is not in the dataset, they are less likely to appear in social protection programmes that could have kept them enrolled.
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An environmental knowledge commons could support evidence-based policymaking, but it will require long-term coordination across the many communities monitoring pollution and local conditions.
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The construction of Europe after WWII sought to promote political and economic cooperation among European nations. The Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence are a testimony to this.