Automated data analysis for the prevention of criminal acts is unconstitutional

Re:Automated data analysis for the prevention of criminal ac... by shasts on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:24AM (#34818294)

So how would fraud prevention be interpreted?

For eg: denying service from a German retailer depending on the ML prediction result of the transaction being classified as fraud probable(Germany has pay by invoice), would also be constitutional or not?

Or credit score/risk rating using ML, trained on a feature extracted from parameters like Zip code, ethnicity could also classified as automated data analysis for prevention of criminal acts, right?

Or this is only applicable to police?

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Re:Automated data analysis for the prevention of criminal ac... by rom-antics on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:39AM (#34818405)

In general a retailer can refuse any customer for any reason (unless you're discriminating against a protected class)

The reason they do this isn't to fight crime, but to save the business from losing money. So I don't see how a ruling about preventing crime would apply.

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Re:Automated data analysis for the prevention of criminal ac... by thenaturalist on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:41AM (#34818435)

Only applicable to police use.

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