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Google has a computer making decisions that affect humans, and then they then have humans defending the decisions a computer did. We live in a dystopia. I hope "Karen" sees the irony in the day job she is doing.

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION.

—IBM, 1979



Technically not allowed in the EU. Will probably take several more years before they get fined a few hundred million again.


Google will present multipe bogus reasons, such as:

1) it is not automated

2) the user consented

3) subjecting oneself to automated processing is a hard requirement

while in reality

1) a human rubberstamping the decision does not make it non-automated

2) coerced or forced consent via ToS and a checkbox is not consent

3) automated processing is not a requirement, just a business decision.




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