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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-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."



> 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.


Even of spelt out in the contract, laws trump contracts. Just a matter of having the patience, and money, to fight the court battle…


Yeah, 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.




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