Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Nicolas Kayser-Bril is a French-German journalist. He pioneered data-driven journalism in Europe and was awarded a Data Journalism Award in 2014 and the European Press Prize in 2015. He works for AlgorithmWatch since 2019. 

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Automating Society Report: Increased deployment of automated decision-making: Transparency, oversight and competence are still lacking

28. October 2020 / Julia Gundlach, Dr. Sarah Fischer

Over 100 use cases of automated decision-making systems in 16 European countries have been compiled by a research network for the 2020 edition of the Automating Society report by Bertelsmann Stiftung and AlgorithmWatch. The report shows: Even though algorithmic systems are increasingly being used by public administration and private companies, there is still a lack […]

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AlgoRail: Is France neglecting health by improving health data access?

5. August 2020 / Nicolas Kayser-Bril

In March 2019, the establishment of a ‘Health Data Hub’ was adopted by the French National Assembly to allow AI projects to easily access health-related data. At the fifth stop of our AlgoRail through Europe, Nicolas Kayser-Bril takes us back 200 years when France first started collecting health information of its citizens, because of a wide-spread epidemic. In […]

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AlgoRail: On the trail of algorithms

8. July 2020 / Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Summer has finally arrived, but the Corona pandemic has already put a damper on many people’s holiday plans. That’s why we want to go on a journey in our new blog series “AlgoRail” – all over Europe and always on the trail of algorithmic systems. Where are algorithmic systems already in use in other countries? […]

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