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by abalone 3681 days ago
It's like spam filtering. It may be hard to imagine but it can work. Algorithms look at multiple signals and produce a confidence score.

Consistently rejecting the one black customer you get every year would probably raise your score enough to prompt an investigation, and the outcome of that (like a fake white test booking) would give more confidence that it's not just coincidence.