Using privacy laws to regulate automated decision making
Making decisions about individuals using computers and computer algorithms is now commonplace. There are now also increasing proposals to use privacy laws to regulate automated decision making. One of the first explicit attempts to regulate automated decision-making using privacy laws is the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). More recently (and locally), both the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA), Canada’s proposed controversial new privacy law, and Bill 64, Quebec’s proposed privacy amendments, would enact new transparency and explainability obligations for automated decision making.…
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