“The App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU), a union that represents private hire couriers and drivers in the UK, filed a complaint against Uber in the District Court of Amsterdam on October 26, 2020. The complaint challenges Uber’s alleged practice of using an algorithm to make firing decisions without human consultation. The algorithm identifies fraudulent driver activity and the company allegedly relies on this algorithmic identification as a basis to terminate drivers. The complaint alleges that this conduct is a breach of Article 22 of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) …” (more)
[Jeffrey Brown, Georgetown Law Technology Review, November 2020]
First posted 2020-11-16 08:46:34
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