[psychiatrist24]

Just don't send your kids to a school that uses such technology, and don't work for employers that use it.

If you cry for regulation, it is a sign that government has too much power. But more regulation gives governments even more power.

Make sure that your citizens have basic rights. Obviously being judged by an algorithm can not make for fair laws. Governments can use algorithms for their assessments, but their has to be a line of appeal.

[_Microft]

Funny, my view as European is that governments are the only entities powerful enough to actually keep companies in check. Without them, companies would do to you whatever they would like.

[Lhd]

have you considered that perhaps companies and governments are together on this?ok, governments do slow down things and come up with regulations here and there (if they decide to). Imo, at the end of the day, they both play on the same team...

[_Microft]

Call me a sweet summer child but I actually believe that our (German) government is still by the people and for the people.

[psychiatrist24]

I'm also an European, and I disagree strongly. Not everybody in Europe is a socialist.

The only thing that guarantees fair treatment is competition (so that for example a worker can quit and work somewhere else). Government rules just breed corruption and inefficiency that harms everybody.

[Frost1x]

Shopping privatized policy through your wallet/feet just doesn't work. It requires critical mass from consumers and the largest portion of consumers will not, or perhaps are in situations where they cannot, resist with their feet/wallet.

I'll take more powerful democratic government over more powerful unchecked privatized (authoriatian) power any day of the week. I'd be happy if both had less concentrated power and citizens had significantly more power.

The way to give citizens power is through law that is clearly and explicitly designed to empower average citizens against both government and private wealth. We have a fair amount of such protection built into our governmental system that does just this for citizens with respect to government (after all, this sort of authoriatian tyranny is one of the reasons we have the US now). We have significantly less clear and explicit law that protects citizens (consumers) from concentrated private wealth (businesses), giving private wealth a massive grey zone of unscrupulous space to play around in.

[psychiatrist24]

This is not an issue of concentrated private wealth. Most schools are run by governments.

You are right, citizens need to be empowered against their governments. But regulations give governments more power, not less.

And if you say the majority of consumers doesn't care about some issue, what makes you think democracy could provide a solution?

You also don't need that many feet to create an alternative school. You just need enough children to justify an extra building and teachers, or supplement the home schooling.

[duxup]

>Just don't send your kids to a school that uses such technology

It's not really a realistic option for most people.

Many folks just can't change schools at will. They simply don't have that kind of flexibility in their life / options.