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A comment on EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”.

Re:EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “righ... by mknocker on Thursday July 07, 2016 @08:34AM (#12048888)
The first thing that came to my mind was... what about advertising on the web ? This is an area where machine learning and algorithmic decision-making use discrimination to either show or not an ad to a particular user. There are millions decision made everyday. Under that regulation, could you ask for the reason an ad was shown to you ?
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Re:EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “righ... by matt4077 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @08:40AM (#12048908)
Nope, because advertisement doesn't "significantly affect" you. At least that's how it's meant and how it will be understood. This is about credit, employment, insurance, medical care etc.
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Re:EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “righ... by Symmetry on Thursday July 07, 2016 @11:35AM (#12049975)
Medical care?! Oh God. Well, I suppose the AMA will keep the US from embracing machine learning so it's not like this is actually a chance for the US to reverse its lag in mortality statistics.
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Re:EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “righ... by csn on Thursday July 07, 2016 @01:20PM (#12050748)
Although just like the things you list, I can think of a plethora of ways with which advertising can literally, indirectly change my life by convincing me to purchase a product or service.
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Re:EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “righ... by denzil_correa on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:12AM (#12049047)
There is some research which shows discrimination in online advertisements.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2208240

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2460278

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Re:EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “righ... by Kristine1975 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @11:21AM (#12049871)
Just put a link under the ad "why am I seeing this ad?" leading to a page with the explanation.
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