A secretive appropriations process killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms. A bill to monitor data center electricity use was also culled.
A secretive appropriations process killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms. A bill to monitor data center electricity use was also culled.
Companies like Flock, behind the AI based car tracking cameras, have been caught having lawyers on their payroll to guide local politicians through how to pass stuff like this secretively against the public’s wishes while still technically not breaking the letter of any laws.
It would be foolish to think those tactics aren’t in use by other organizations.
Lobbyists exist everywhere, even for building codes.