[buro9]

Reminder for those in the UK and Europe... this is illegal.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

> Article 22(1) of the UK GDPR limits the circumstances in which you can make solely automated decisions, including those based on profiling, that have a legal or similarly significant effect on individuals.

"legal or similarly significant effect on individuals" includes discrimination based on any protected characteristics.

AirBnB in any defence will have to prove that race, age, gender, sexuality, disability, etc were _not_ part of any automated decision.

As the article mentions that this is being deployed to the UK I have cited a UK specific article.

[verbify]

I'm wondering how I could figure out that I was the victim of this. Perhaps if the booking was cancelled almost immediately after being booked.

Wouldn't the workaround for airbnb to be having a member of staff 'approve' the decision (where the member of staff has thousands to approve a day,and understands that their job is to just click approve all the time).

[makingstuffs]

Wouldn’t be surprised if Rishi and Co shred up GDPR obligations while on their spree of shredding our other rights. So far we’ve lost or are losing:

Right to protest[0]

Right to strike[1]

Human rights[2]

[0] https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-passing-new-pub...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/05/uk-ministers...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/19/rishi-sunak-...

[ndsipa_pomu]

Well, if we didn't want Rishi to destroy the country so much, we shouldn't have voted for him

[makingstuffs]

I hope that is sarcasm hard to tell on t’interwebs

[Nextgrid]

GDPR enforcement is severely lacking, not only in the UK but even in Europe even in case of blatant and obvious breaches (Facebook, Google, etc), so good luck getting the regulator to do anything about your "Your booking couldn't be processed, please try again later" error.