Amazon used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites and "destroyed" some internal communications as the Federal Trade Commission was investigating the ...

In May this year, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wants advertisers to hand over their bank accounts and walk away. In his ...

Amazon made more than $1 billion in excess profits by employing a secret algorithm codenamed “Project Nessie” that inflated prices, according to newly unredacted portions of the Federal Trade ...

"How to ensure that the algorithm is fair, how to make sure the algorithm is really interpretable and explainable - that's still quite far off," he said. Amazon's experiment began ... Problems with ...

The inherent tension in collecting data is that it allows companies to tailor advertisements to what consumers want, but it can be abused when data is transferred, sold or stolen, explained Kevin ...

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