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This makes me think of the part of the GDPR that deals with automated decision making: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-th
by frereubu 5y ago
This makes me think of the part of the GDPR that deals with automated decision making: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/automated-decision-making-and-profiling/what-does-the-uk-gdpr-say-about-automated-decision-making-and-profiling/ https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
"The UK GDPR gives people the right not to be subject to solely automated decisions, including profiling, which have a legal or similarly significant effect on them." I guess that would probably be buried in an employment contract at Amazon, but it might form the basis for a court case if it wasn't actually spelt out.
Just because a human has designed the algorithm doesn't make it non-automated: "A process might still be considered solely automated if a human inputs the data to be processed, and then the decision-making is carried out by an automated system. A process won’t be considered solely automated if someone weighs up and interprets the result of an automated decision before applying it to the individual."
- sebasvisser 5y agoEven of spelt out in the contract, laws trump contracts. Just a matter of having the patience, and money, to fight the court battle…
- frereubu 5y agoYeah, for sure. But if GP was fired like this then a bet a bunch of people were, and if they were in the EU they might be able to make it a class action.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> Just because a human has designed the algorithm doesn't make it non-automated: "A process might still be considered solely automated if a human inputs the data to be processed, and then the decision-making is carried out by an automated system. A process won’t be considered solely automated if someone weighs up and interprets the result of an automated decision before applying it to the individual." Lawyers have a tendency to create employment for other lawyer-type professions it seems.