"The Commission’s Digital Omnibus in the iteration of the so-called ‘Data Omnibus’ proposes to rewrite Article 22, one of the GDPR’s strongest safeguards against significant decisions taken solely through automated processing.
Most strikingly, it would allow automated decision-making to be considered ‘necessary’ for a contract even when the same decision could be taken by a human.
That is not a minor technical adjustment. It risks turning a safeguard into an exception: if a company can say that automation is useful or efficient, the question becomes not whether a human could make the decision, but whether the company has a reason to automate it.
The timing is difficult to ignore, mind you. While courts and regulators are finally showing why these safeguards matter, Brussels is considering making automated decisions easier to justify in the name of ‘efficiency’.
What are we willing to give up in the name of – allegedly - making regulation simpler? If a safeguard is treated as a burden because it makes automated decision-making harder, we should at least ask whose burden we are reducing and who will carry the risk instead."
https://euobserver.com/237625/computer-says-no-how-brussels-is-letting-algorithmic-social-scoring-in-by-the-backdoor
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