Google Slams Word Corp ‘Algorithm Review Board’ Hopes

That's pretty funny.
The media companies should force for review of the platforms too their algos.
Turnabout existence fair play too all.

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

Google has slammed News Corp's proposal for the authorities to innovate a review panel to scrutinise algorithms used past times digital platforms, telling the contest regulator the publisher's thought was "unnecessary too ill-conceived".

In a 2d submission to the Australian Competition too Consumer Commission's (ACCC) enquiry into digital platforms, the search giant claimed that an algorithm review board would non live on practical, too to a greater extent than transparency could let out the search engine to existence manipulated past times bad actors.

It said “mandating disclosure of Google's algorithms would conflict alongside long-standing legal protections for merchandise secrets too other intellectual property" too would prompt "serious" questions every bit to how a review system would run too its purpose.

The ACCC is inwards the concluding weeks of preparing a preliminary study for the authorities every bit business office of a world-first enquiry close the touching on of the digital platforms, such every bit Facebook too Google, on media publishers too their advertising revenues.

Google's additional comments to the regulator comes afterward months of forums, submissions too scathing criticism from media companies. Fairfax Media (owner of The Sydney Morning Herald too The Age) has an advertising partnership alongside Google....MORE

The "Review Board" volition never tumble out merely it's fun to encounter the GOOG's reaction to fifty-fifty a hint of looking at what they're upward to.