Algorithms and Big Tech There has been a movement to force Big Tech to reveal their algorithms. To answer why you show X above Y for a particular search query. Courts, till now have more or less shied away from prospects of such compulsion. However, in one of the first cases, a Japanese court asked a hotel booking website to disclose their algorithm when a hotel owner alleged the booking website of giving biased results. Similar demands have been made in other parts of the world. European Union has been deliberating on an act regulating algorithms: the Digital Services Act. That will essentially compel tech Companies to reveal their algorithms to users (and not merely regulators). China passed a new set of regulations this year which gave users the right to opt out of algorithm-driven feed. The regulations stipulate that tech companies have to inform users in a conspicuous way if any algorithms are being used to push content to them. And, if yes they have the option to opt out of targe...