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tchallatoday at 7:02 PM3 repliesview on HN

> GDPR rules ban decisions made solely by computer algorithms when they have a significant impact on people’s lives, such as on employment, saying such decisions require meaningful human review and a way to challenge a decision.

The law Uber broke. I can’t believe they found it that difficult to follow something as simple as that.


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 7:20 PM

> something as simple as that

Dutch Uber drivers aren’t employees [1].

[1] https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/27/uber-drivers-freelancers-emplo...

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mike_hearntoday at 7:24 PM

They claim they didn't break it.

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roughlytoday at 7:20 PM

They didn’t find it difficult, they found it expensive and figured they could avoid it. In the US, they’d probably have been right; in the EU, apparently not.