The Data Bill strips back your right to human review of automated decisions that have life-changing impacts.

It flips the script, forcing you to prove a mistake has been made when AI gets it wrong – the scales of justice further imbalanced.

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Even the limitation on automated decision-making using 'special category data' could be sidestepped by relying on the loophole of 'authorised by law' in the UK Data Bill.

The letter warns that "police will be able to conduct ADM without limitation and to conduct ADM involving sensitive data with very few limitations."

Automated decisions could be made in policing "on the basis of their socioeconomic status, regional or postcode data, inferred emotions, or even regional accents."

The UK Data Bill puts marginalised groups at risk of opaque and unfair automated decisions that replicate inherent biases in the data.

The UK Data Use and Access Bill strips away your right to not be subjected to life-changing decisions made solely by AI, apart from where special category data is used.

But, as the letter says, "there are many contexts in which non-special category personal data acts as a proxy for protected characteristics."

The Commission version improved the GDPR automated decision-making test by explicitly stating that decisions that significantly affect working conditions would be significant — this is removed in the Council Version. You can see more on this in s 2.1.2. of our article. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20319525231167983 and image 2. #adm #automatedDecisionMaking #automatedDecisions