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RE: Angela Merkel Asks Major Internet Companies to divulge the secrets of their algorithms: Hello Google and Bing!
They should all be very transparent.
If you post/search too much on liberals, you stop see conservative posts and visa versa.
Now, if all the major search engines published their code... not 1 in 100 could understand it, and of that, only a small percentage would take any time to look into it. Its a mess! And it is almost completely useless without the data on each person.
Knowing that the govern-cements do not have anyone smart enough to understand these algorithms (they will hire smart people, and they won't understand them either) so this is a ruse for something else.
What does Merkel really want?
lol, exactly! What does she want? because earlier cases of transparency have been used maliciously by some to manipulate or hack systems and looks like governments want to do that too!
Thank you for the comment.
Exactly the algorithm worth nothing without data. I think she doesn't want anything specific, she just doesn't know what she is talking about.
That seems to be the main thing here, data. As you have put it, without data an algorithm is nothing and seeing the codes will accomplish nothing, but the data itself is tangible and could be used for further scrutiny and surveillance! Any Governments ideal!
Thanks.
Google would prefer to leave Europe rather than giving away its data. They can close Google's business operations in EU countries (which is not much the biggest HQ is in UK) but they cannot block access to the website for european people.
We did see something like that with China, and may happen in the EU too. But the fact is the corporations are kings these days, especially the large ones, and they seem to call the shots and win in the end.
EU cannot go the censorship path the way China went. It's probably not constitutional, people won't accept it and the governments are not that powerful to enforce the rule.