Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the Era of FinTech

R. Bartlett, A. Morse, R. Stanton, N. Wallace, here. 

Discrimination and Data Ethics

DTL 2017, Video here. 

ICO highlights that GDPR requires businesses to understand and explain the rationale of decisions taken by machines

Out-Law.com, here.

The Facebook/Admiral Scandal Shows The Limits And Dangers Of Big Data Capitalism

HuffPost, here.

Sen. Al Franken asks Uber and Lyft about alleged racial discrimination against passengers

TechCrunch, here. 

Feature statt Bug: Facebook redet Diskriminierung als „multikulturelles Marketing“ schön

Netzpolitik, hier. 

Google researchers aim to prevent AIs from discriminating

TechCrunch, here.

The Rise of Behavioural Discrimination

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here.

Airbnb hires ex-U.S. Attorney General to help shape anti-discrimination policy

VentureBeat, here. 

Bundeskartellamt erwirkt Änderung des Händler-Rabattsystems bei GARDENA

Bundeskartellamt.de, hier. 

"METRO Cash & Carry” created discriminatory conditions for suppliers of meat and fish products in Russia

FAS, here, and here for some general background on the issue of discrimination in food retail chain in Russia.

EU Commission confirms it is investigating Deutsche Bahn for abuse of dominant position (also not an April fool)

"It has been alleged that Deutsche Bahn group, and in particular Deutsche Bahn Energie, the de facto sole supplier of electricity for traction trains in Germany, would be giving preferential treatment to the group's rail freight arm. The Commission officials were accompanied by their counterparts from the German competition authority", here.