alt Hacker NewsReading the Guardian article - it feels that the decision is weakly motivated. It is not clear exactly what rules Uber broke.
>“Uber has committed serious infringements” by deactivating driver accounts without warning or human involvement, the organization’s deputy chair Monique Verdier said in a statement.
>“From one moment to the next they no longer had any income … A computer should not make decisions on its own that have (such) major consequences.”
If you manage to extract usable info from that quote kudos. To me it looks like regulator going berserk in reading the unholy mess that is GDPR.
GDPR rules ban decisions made solely by computer algorithms when they have a significant impact on people’s lives, such as on employment. Such decisions require meaningful human review and a way to challenge a decision.