Hildebrandt on the disconnect between ‘upstream’ automation and legal protection against automated decision making

In a recent publication in the Journal of Things We Like (Lots) - JOTWELL, Mireille Hildebrandt reviews the article Is That Your Final Decision? Multi-stage Profiling, Selective Effects, and Article 22 of the GDPR by Reuben Binns and Michael Veale, where the authors discuss the arduous issues of the EU GDPR’s prohibition of impactful automated decisions.

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