Who, or what, sent them? Jane Wiedel Photolibrary/Alamy Stockphoto
HAVE you been turned down by a computer? Perhaps your online credit application was refused. Maybe you were denied a job, or even parole.
the right to ask the inscrutable algorithms involved to explain themselves.
In April this year, the European parliament approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new set of rules governing personal data. Due to go into , it introduces a “right to explanation”: the opportunity for European Union citizens to question the logic of an algorithmic decision – and contest the results.…
