French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/17/french-senate-backs-bid-to-force-google-to-disclose-search-algorithm-workings "Meanwhile in France, the upper house of parliament yesterday voted to support an amendment to a draft economy bill that would require search engines to display at least three rivals on their homepage. And also to reveal the workings of their search ranking algorithms ..." - - - Give in to bullies, and they'll never stop demanding more. I've been saying this all along, and efforts like this -- whether or not they actually become law -- show that even when dealing with countries in the West politicians are attempting to take total control of information for their own purposes and their own pandernig political ends. They cannot be permitted to succeed -- the end result could make Orwell's vision of government information management and censorship look like a walk in the park by comparison. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
