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California strips consumer protections against automated decision-making systems

Mark Frauenfelder
Apr 30, 2025
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Companies are using inscrutable algorithms to make life-changing decisions about your job, loans, and education — and California officials just made it harder for its residents to fight back.

The California Privacy Protection Agency recently stripped away proposed protections that would have given workers and consumers the right to understand and…

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