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reports that Commission President von der Leyen has at several occasions addressed the European Horse Network (EHN), but these meetings are missing in VDL’s public calendar and her log of meetings with #lobbyists 🤔
'... as work done by my team of chemistry researchers suggests, up to 90% of tattoo inks in the U.S. might be mislabeled. This isn't just a case of a missing pigment or a minor discrepancy. These inks contained potentially concerning additives that weren't listed on the packaging.'
Electoral Bonds legalised a route for political parties to secretly funnel unaccounted money from India and abroad into their coffers. But, no one is punished. No one expected they would be. We have been trained by experience to expect so little of democracy and its institutions. Nitin Sethi writes.
A year ago he released the promised algorithm for determining content pushed upon you (if you use twitter).
Perhaps more surprisingly, He admitted that even internally, that the #spaghetti_code comprising it isn't even fully understood internally by their staff. That's more #transparency than was expected.
But now, just a few hours ago, he released the source for #xAI's #Grok chatbot too, under the #Apache_license:
SC has managed to retrieve some of the ground it had steadily ceded to the Executive. It remains to be seen, if, on this decision and in cases in the future, it can stay the course. Christophe Jaffrelot writes.
Electoral bonds, the State Bank and the art of evasion
The Indian voter needs to know the sources of financial contributions to political parties well before she casts her vote in the general election, write Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri in today's The Hindu.
SBI Asks Supreme Court For Time Till June-End to Hand Over Details of Electoral Bonds
The bank cited difficulties in following the court's original deadline of March 6 and said it had to process 44,434 sets of information regarding bonds bought and encashed in the last five years, LiveLaw reported.
They seek to obtain #research access to internal #Microsoft data to check whether and how the company is making sure its not-so-intelligent #AI#Copilot isn't bullshitting around in dangerous ways.
Today we are publishing our transparency report 2023, in which we disclose the type and scope of official requests for information made to us as a provider.
👉 We did not respond to over a third of the requests.
Standardization is promoted as a solution to achieve ethical AI. I attend to the tension between standardization and AI transparency. Overall, this article stresses the complexity of governing sociotechnical AI principles by standardization.
A disappointing judgment from the UPC Court of Appeal, ruling that the act of requesting access to a document filed at the Court requires representation by a UPC Representative. It will be onerous for journalists, for example, to have to instruct a UPC Representative to get to even ask to see a document, such as a statement of claim or defence. Does the UPC really want to lack transparency to this extent? (short post by me)
Modi Government's Tryst with Electoral Bonds Should Neither Be Forgotten Nor Forgiven
The episode reveals that when a strong executive decides it wants something, even something that is dangerous and unconstitutional, there is little resistance from within to stop it, writes Aakar Patel.
Als Mitinitiator danke ich Dietmar Köster (SPD), @SLagodinsky (Grüne), @MartinSonneborn (PARTEI) und Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) für die Unterstützung. Möge die Bundesregierung erwachen!
🇬🇧46 Members of the European Parliament today make a final request to UK Home Secretary James Cleverly to protect Julian #Assange from looming extradition to the US.
Our message: Europe is watching the UK and its respect for human rights and the Human Rights Convention closely. Britain's relationship with the EU is at stake.
The electoral bonds scheme has to be struck down as unconstitutional: SC
While the petitioners argued that the anonymity of electoral bond donations violated citizens’ right to information, the government defended the scheme citing the right to privacy.