Privacy Advocates Hope Other States Raise Bar on Automated-Decisions Regulation
California set a standard for other states to follow on regulating automated decision-making technology (ADMT), but the bar isn't as high as it should be, consumer privacy advocates said Wednesday in a blog post for the Center for Democracy & Technology.
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The California Privacy Protection Agency adopted its rules on automated decisions in July, and they're expected to be made final later this month (see 2508120025). The rules “will be an important reference point for regulators and legislators in other states who want to tackle this issue,” wrote Matt Scherer, the center's senior policy counsel, and Grace Gedye, a Consumer Reports policy analyst.
However, while the rules were a “significant policy development” that made California only the second state to regulate ADMT, they don’t “protect consumers in many situations where an ADMT plays an influential role in major life decisions,” the consumer advocates said. In addition, the California rules “render important rights unlikely to be used in practice” and “carve workers out of numerous protections.”