In a 2018 Interview, Mark Zuckerberg announced the Facebook Oversight Board’s introduction as Facebook’s own Supreme Court and subsequently the new organisation began its work on 22 October 2020. This blog post provides an overview of the board’s activities in its first year of operation.

The ifo Business Climate Index is often referred to as a representative study, investigating inter alia German companies’ digitisation progress. The Data collected attracts a great deal of media attention in Germany. However, the survey’s metadata, which is a rich source of information about companies and their behaviour, has so far received little public or academic attention.

Writing emails is an everyday task for many people. Can they be supported with interactive AI? Daniel Buschek outlines the findings from their prototype AI email editor with Deep Learning text generation.

Users have the right to retrieve their data stored with online services and have it transferred to other services, for example when changing providers. Initial studies from the bidt project “Motivation and Implementation of Data Portability” reveal that, whilst there is a great demand for transferring data between services, little is known about any relevant legal implications.