Welcome to 2021! Here’s what we covered this week:

[00:03:44] Legal Action Against TikTok for Underage Data Violations While TikTok has managed to avoid being banned and continues to grow, a new legal challenge is coming in the UK for how it handles personal data for underage users. Will TikTok continue to squeak by? By Andrew Hutchinson

[00:10:14] Does Google’s John Mueller Ever Take a Break? John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, was online engaging the webmaster community on both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. But his holiday engagements have become a tradition. By Barry Schwartz

[00:15:36] Is BERT Biased? When Training Data Bakes in Bias Like machine learning algorithms, a language model like BERT has to be trained using training data, and if the data is biased, then the way the model operates may be biased as well, with real consequences. By George Nguyen