The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, has announced the development of an Artificial Intelligence tool in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay to identify illegal immigrants from...
Electronic Workplace Monitoring and Human Rights: The Limits to Ontario’s New Algorithmic Monitoring Legislation
Image Description: A robot looking at coding/programming algorithm. In early October 2022, Ontario became the first Canadian province to expressly regulate algorithmic monitoring at work. In terms of recent amendments...
Improving Working Conditions in the Gig Economy: The EU’s Proposed Platform Work Directive
On 8 December 2021, the European Commission published its long-awaited draft of a directive aiming to improve working conditions in the platform (or ‘gig’) economy. In this blog post, we...
Algorithms and Education: A New Frontier of Discrimination?
In this brief post, I want to demonstrate how ostensibly neutral and efficient algorithms can cause discrimination in education. Last year, the national advanced level qualifications (‘A-levels’) exams in the...
