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Data sharing mechanism or programme

Technology Policy Tracker

Since summer 2023, organizers from Cambridge Local First, Tech Policy Press, and Integrity Institute have been collaborating on data-building initiatives around major policy (legislation, investigations, and litigation including antitrust, consumer[...]

Published date: March 15, 2024

Subject tag: Advertising | Algorithmic systems | Child safety | Data Access | Disinformation and misinformation | Government transparency | Privacy and data protection | Terrorism and violent extremism

Best practice guide

Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society

Partnership on AI brings together diverse voices from the AI community to address important questions about our future with AI.

Published date: March 1, 2024

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | artificial intelligence

Digital application | Transparency center

Transparency Tools Tracker

This tracker aims to describe existing research access tools and to monitor notable changes. To describe existing research tools, we copy and link to text directly from the platforms where[...]

Published date: March 1, 2024

Subject tag: Data Access

Research report

From ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini: when would generative AI products fall within the scope of the Digital Services Act?

In this post, digital policy specialists Mathias Vermeulen and Laureline Lemoine of law firm and consultancy AWO explain in which circumstances generative AI product and tools would be subject to[...]

Published date: February 12, 2024

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Generative AI

Submission/proposal/advocacy/recommendation

The Digital Services Act is in effect – now what? Policy Brief

What the establishment of Digital Services Coordinators across the EU means for platform users, researchers, civil society and companies.

Published date: February 8, 2024

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Child safety

Data sharing mechanism or programme

Global Legislative Map (GIFCT, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism)

Led by Vanessa Christophers, the GIFCT Legal Frameworks Working Group created this tool to better understand and follow the rapidly evolving legislations impacting how tech companies enforce their content policies[...]

Published date: February 1, 2024

Subject tag: Terrorism and violent extremism

Company policy | Data sharing mechanism or programme

Meta Partners with the Center for Open Science to Share Data to Study Well-being Topics

Using innovative methods from the open science movement to promote rigor and transparency of research, Meta and the Center for Open Science will pilot a new approach to industry-academia partnerships[...]

Published date: January 29, 2024

Subject tag: Data Access | open science | Privacy and data protection

Data sharing mechanism or programme | Research report

Tech sector transparency & the Global South

In the last year alone, the Resource Centre added 1,447 articles, company responses and other resources to its open-access database of materials on human rights and the technology sector. We[...]

Published date: January 25, 2024

Research report

Towards an African alliance for meaningful access to Intermediaries’ data holdings

There is African appetite for increased access and use of social media platform data. But there is also low awareness in the wider society of the significance of data, and[...]

Published date: December 20, 2023

Subject tag: Data Access | Disinformation and misinformation

Submission/proposal/advocacy/recommendation

Building a Glossary for Synthetic Media Transparency Methods, Part 1: Indirect Disclosure

According to an Axios poll, a third of Americans say AI will reduce their trust in the results of the 2024 U.S. election. For Partnership on AI (PAI), this raises[...]

Published date: December 19, 2023

Subject tag: artificial intelligence | Disinformation and misinformation