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Complaint filed: Help! My recruiter is an algorithm!

Automated Decision-Making Profiling Supervisory Authorities
Dec 22, 2021 Source

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Help! My recruiter is an algorithm! noyb has filed a complaint with the Luxembourg data protection authority (the CNPD) against Amazon because of their dubious e-recruiting practices on their Mechanical Turk platform. In particular, Amazon uses automated decision-making to accept or reject workers - with no possibility for the applicants to understand the criteria behind such an automated decision, or to challenge it. Complaint filed with the Luxembourg data protection authority (EN) Complaint filed with the Luxembourg data protection authority (FR) Becoming an MTurk worker. Amazon Mechanical Turk (“AMT”, a company of the Amazon group) operates a crowd-sourcing platform on the website www.mturk.com. This platform brings together various businesses and small independent workers located all over the world. These workers (also called “MTurk Workers ”) usually perform micro-tasks for small remuneration, such as image content analysis, online content moderation, or data validation. Algorith

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