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Updated: 16 Apr 2021, 18:16
IRELAND’s new media commission must be able to come down hard on social media companies that target vulnerable individuals for profit, it has been claimed.
Instagram were recently forced to apologise after their algorithms were offering diet products to people with eating disorders.
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Instagram algorithms targeted people with eating disordersCredit: Alamy
Now Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne has insisted that the planned new Media Commission will have the power to monitor and take action on the use of algorithms and by social media companies.
Senator Byrne said: “This is a huge area as more and more decisions are being made by simply using machine learning.
Facebook is to be sued in Europe over the major leak of user data that dates back to 2019 but which only came to light recently after information on 533M+ accounts was found posted for free download on a hacker forum. Today Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) announced it’s commencing a “mass action” to sue Facebook, citing […]
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