I am liking Semafor's tech reporting. semafor.com/reed-albergotti

I hope you are right, but I could imagine a lot of AI testing (for bias or for accuracy) being not very close to the original purpose, though it serves the interests of users. Then the CJEU will have to either handicap the AI industry or create a legal fiction.

An excellent use of the verb "to bitch". marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

My discussion with the @techfreedom technology policy podcast in which I defend using facial recognition for law enforcement (sometimes). podcast.techfreedom.org/e/332-facial-r…

Some sanity.

Krish Muralidhar and Josep Domingo Ferrer have a devastating critique of the Census database reconstruction experiment forthcoming in the Journal of Official Statistics. There was no statistical justification for draconian new disclosure measures. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

Smart EU lawyers tell us we'll know what the EU's new Digital Services Act actually requires platforms to do in about 10 years

Yes!

Finally!

Here's my take on the war against curation algorithms. lawfareblog.com/misbegotten-wa…

This is consistent with the Facebook study published in Science. But when you point out that filter bubbling is driven by demand-side factors and not supply-side nefarious algorithms, it makes people sad and irritable.

Unintended consequences of GDPR... marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

The New York Times frequently takes a position against "creepy" behavioral advertising, but here is what my NYT homepage looks like right now. I can't even see the top headline. Is this obnoxiously large and un-tailored advertisement supposed to be better? Thank you?

And the "parallels" Khan draws between First Amendment law and antitrust should be terrifying for the FedSoc crowd. She says 1A overbreadth doctrine prohibits certain schemes that risk chilling speech even absent actual government actions is like how certain types of private

Tech fears create the tightest political horseshoes.

This is what I was hoping every time I break my water pressure reducing shower heads!

I had a great time talking about the TikTok law with Jane Bambauer and Eugene Volokh on their new Hoover Institution "Free Speech Unmuted" podcast. youtube.com/watch?v=tKWqi-…

Should privacy be protected using property rights? Watch Jim Harper and me debate this at AEI tomorrow morning! aei.org/technology-and…

Enough on but for. Let's talk about the forced index sharing. This is a bigger deal than it looks. Google must provide rivals with search index metadata - URLs, crawl dates, spam scores. One-time transfer at marginal cost. That's years of infrastructure investment handed over.