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Uncertainty in artificial intelligence (AI) predictions poses urgent legal and ethical challenges for AI-assisted decision-making. We examine two algorithmic interventions that act as guardrails for human-AI collaboration: selective…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Holli Sargeant , Mackenzie Jorgensen , Arina Shah , Adrian Weller , Umang Bhatt

This brief paper provides an introduction to non-discrimination law in Europe. It answers the questions: What are the key characteristics of non-discrimination law in Europe, and how do the different statutes relate to one another? Our main…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius , Nina Baranowska , Philipp Hacker , Alessandro Fabris

The recent European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection regulations restrict the processing of some categories of personal data (health, political orientation, sexual preferences, religious beliefs, ethnic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Ángel Cuevas , José González Cabañas , Aritz Arrate , Rubén Cuevas

Tackling algorithmic discrimination against persons with disabilities (PWDs) demands a distinctive approach that is fundamentally different to that applied to other protected characteristics, due to particular ethical, legal, and technical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Maarten Buyl , Christina Cociancig , Cristina Frattone , Nele Roekens

In this short paper, we consider the roles of HCI in enabling the better governance of consequential machine learning systems using the rights and obligations laid out in the recent 2016 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)---a law…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Michael Veale , Reuben Binns , Max Van Kleek

This paper introduces the strategic approach to regulating personal data and the normative foundations of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ('GDPR'). We explain the genesis of the GDPR, which is best understood as an…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Chris Jay Hoofnagle , Bart van der Sloot , Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

Machine learning is becoming an ever present part in our lives as many decisions, e.g. to lend a credit, are no longer made by humans but by machine learning algorithms. However those decisions are often unfair and discriminating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Elias Baumann , Josef Lorenz Rumberger

What constitutes a fair decision? This question is not only difficult for humans but becomes more challenging when Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are used. In light of discriminatory algorithmic behaviors, the EU has recently passed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Kristof Meding

Employment selection processes that use automated hiring systems based on machine learning are becoming increasingly commonplace. Meanwhile, concerns about algorithmic direct and indirect discrimination that result from such systems are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Robert Lee Poe

AI-based systems are widely employed nowadays to make decisions that have far-reaching impacts on individuals and society. Their decisions might affect everyone, everywhere and anytime, entailing concerns about potential human rights…

This study delves into gender classification systems, shedding light on the interaction between social stereotypes and algorithmic determinations. Drawing on the "averageness theory," which suggests a relationship between a face's…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Miriam Doh , Anastasia Karagianni

As generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) technologies proliferate across sectors, they offer significant benefits but also risk exacerbating discrimination. This chapter explores how genAI intersects with non-discrimination laws,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Philipp Hacker

Emerging scholarship suggests that the EU legal concept of direct discrimination - where a person is given different treatment on grounds of a protected characteristic - may apply to various algorithmic decision-making contexts. This has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hilde Weerts , Aislinn Kelly-Lyth , Reuben Binns , Jeremias Adams-Prassl

This article examines the concept of 'AI fairness' for people with disabilities from the perspective of data protection and equality law. This examination demonstrates that there is a need for a distinctive approach to AI fairness that is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Reuben Binns , Reuben Kirkham

Data mining is an increasingly important technology for extracting useful knowledge hidden in large collections of data. There are, however, negative social perceptions about data mining, among which potential privacy violation and…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-07-01 Sara Hajian

Organizations cannot address demographic disparities that they cannot see. Recent research on machine learning and fairness has emphasized that awareness of sensitive attributes, such as race and sex, is critical to the development of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Miranda Bogen , Aaron Rieke , Shazeda Ahmed

Recent research has helped to cultivate growing awareness that machine learning systems fueled by big data can create or exacerbate troubling disparities in society. Much of this research comes from outside of the practicing data science…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-23 Brian d'Alessandro , Cathy O'Neil , Tom LaGatta

Algorithmic discrimination is an important aspect when data is used for predictive purposes. This paper analyzes the relationships between discrimination and classification, data set partitioning, and decision models, as well as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Jixue Liu , Jiuyong Li , Feiyue Ye , Lin Liu , Thuc Duy Le , Ping Xiong

This report summarizes the European Union's series of data and AI regulations and analyzes them for managers in automotive vehicle manufacturing organizations. In particular, we highlight the relevant ideas of the regulations, including how…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Charlotte A. Shahlaei , Nicholas Berente

This article identifies a critical incompatibility between European notions of discrimination and existing statistical measures of fairness. First, we review the evidential requirements to bring a claim under EU non-discrimination law. Due…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Sandra Wachter , Brent Mittelstadt , Chris Russell