Automated decisions: UBER fined nearly EUR 825 million
France's data protection authority, the CNIL, has fined Uber nearly 825 million euros, apparently connected to the company's use of automated decision-making processes. The penalty is one of the largest issued by a European privacy regulator.
Why this matters: This is a very large number, and the reason it matters is not just the size. Automated decisions at a company like Uber can affect whether a driver keeps their job, gets deactivated, or loses income overnight, often with no human ever reviewing what happened. European law gives people the right to contest decisions made by algorithms. That right is meaningless if companies ignore it. A fine this size tells other platforms that regulators are done treating automated decision-making as a technical detail buried in terms of service.
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