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1. Antonio Aloisi
EUI, Florence
Max Weber June Conference
15 June 2022
Workers
managed
by tech
An anticipatory
& participatory
approach
2. Algorithms are complex sets of
rigid or adaptable instructions
supported by advanced
statistics and fuelled by
increased computational power,
which maximise efficiency with
regard to assigning tasks,
categorising items, targeting
messages, allocating resources
and forecasting events.
“Automated decision-making
systems” (ADMS) partially or fully
outsource choices to software.
They operate in education,
healthcare, finance and welfare.
Not only descriptive or
observational, they entail the
possibility of predicting and
prescribing conducts, pressuring
workers to abide by rules.
Artificial Intelligence (AI),
umbrella term for applications,
standalone or embedded in tools,
that mimic capabilities
associated with humans.
Machine learning (ML) can
autonomously develop
capabilities ‘by example and by
doing’ and redesign procedures
to pursue objectives.
The most critical underlying asset is data, particularly personal data, without which technologies
could not operate in such efficient ways (collected through wearables, apps and software).
“Big” or “smart” data capture, storage and processing constitute the backbone of digital operators’
strategies, ensuring exponential advances in reprogramming business models and redeploying
complex activities due to the high availability of data-collecting devices and computational power.
3. Preliminary
remarks
the marvel and
the menace
Data
protection
promoting
legibility
Non
discrimination
a brad approach
to equality law
Collective
rights
you can’t save
yourself alone
5. 5
The problem
□ Algorithmic management and surveillance
through wearables involve:
■ A slow and gradual makeover that unfolds
at different paces in different industries
■ An invisible trend that is also faceless,
leading to a chilling effect on resistance
▣ Competitive entitlements differentiated in a
tailor-made, evolvable or unintuitive way
■ Presented as a magic wand for solving
problems related to OSH, human
subjectivity, bottlenecks, and systematic
disparities in regular workplaces
wearables, AI
& algorithms
in workplaces
○ what’s
new?
6. 6
The solutions
wearables, AI
& algorithms
in workplaces
○ the legal
context
□ Labour law moderates the unilateral
discretionary power of the dominant party by
deploying controlling factors
■ Are existing countervailing forces limited as
they were designed upon forms of power
that were significantly less sophisticated
than today’s technocratic authority?
■ A convergence towards more encompassing
and dissuasive methods
■ Re-engineering strategic litigation, by
deploying responsive strategies to limit
abuses before they are perpetrated
8. □ Two roadblocks:
■ Inferential analytics –detecting correlations
and patterns– could escape the GDPR
■ The opacity is an obstacle to the legibility
▣ Code mutates after a decision is made
□ This underestimates or obfuscates the role
of the programmers, providers or users who:
■ Decide to adopt tools to pursue goals that
could be achieved by less intrusive means
■ Introduce key commands
■ Validate the original datasets
8
data
protection
9. □ Misplaced emphasis on transparency
■ Such rhetoric shifts attention to inner
workings, rather than external effects
□ Litigants can rely on evidentiary tools that
leverage the lack of information
■ Placing the burden on employers to deploy
processes that are reasonable and reportable
■ Instrumental rights for changing decisions
and laying the groundwork for a grievance
▣ Art. 9 GDPR: the processing of data
concerning health shall be prohibited
▣ Exceptions: consent, OSH compliance, …
9
data
protection
10. □ If data processing “is likely to result in a high
risk to the rights and freedom of natural
persons” (Art. 35(1) GDPR)
■ A one-off exercise, before and after
▣ Art. 35(3)(a) → DPIA for “systematic and
extensive evaluation of personal aspects
relating to natural persons [...] on which
decisions [with legal effects] are based”
▣ Art. 35(7) → DPIA must include a “systematic
description of the operations and the
purposes of the processing, the clarification of
necessity and proportionality, the risks and
the measures to address risks and
demonstrate compliance with the GDPR”
10
impact
assessment
(DPIA)
11. □ DPIA: channel for examining the lawfulness
of processing or triggering legal remedies,
thus allowing workers to learn more
■ Should not the DPIA be carefully drafted
□ Art. 13(2)(f) + 14(2)(g) + 15(1) impose an
obligation to notify data subjects and grant
them access when involved in “automated
decision-making, including profiling”
■ “Meaningful information about the logic
involved, as well as the significance and the
envisaged consequences of such processing
for the data subject” must be provided
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information
and access
rights
12. □ Art. 22 GDPR, ban on decisions solely based
on ADMS + profiling with legal or similarly
significant effects on data subjects
■ Exception: the processing is “necessary for
entering into, or performance of, a contract”
▣ BUT Section 3 “the [employer] shall
implement suitable measures to safeguard
the [employee]’s rights and freedoms and
legitimate interests, at least the right to
obtain human intervention on the part of the
controller, to express his or her point of view
and to contest the decision”
▣ Recital 71, an explanation of the decision
reached and to challenge the decision
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rights to
redress &
explanation
14. □ Direct discrimination
■ A person is treated less favourably than
another is, has been, or would be treated in
a comparable situation (protected grounds)
▣ Sex, age, colour, ethnicity, political belief, …
□ Indirect discrimination
■ An apparently neutral provision, criterion or
practice (PCP) would put [persons with a
protected ground] at a particular
disadvantage compared with other persons
▣ unless that PCP is justified by a legitimate
aim and the means of achieving that aim are
appropriate and necessary
14
equality
15. □ Proof of a nexus of causality between the
conduct and the harm as well as between
the action and the protected ground
■ Intent is irrelevant, effects matter
□ Direct discrimination → no justification
▣ But need to demonstrate that a less
impactful practice could not be adopted
(predictive accuracy is not an alibi)
□ Indirect discrimination → justification
▣ Those who claim algorithms reduce
arbitrariness rely on the argument that they
“answer to no one”, which is precisely the
rationale behind indirect discrimination
15
mobilising
equality
16. □ Special evidentiary rules: the burden of
proof is partially reversed or shared
between the claimant and the respondent
■ Victims need only establish in court plausible
yet not conclusive facts from which it can be
presumed that discrimination has occurred
▣ This requirement can be fulfilled by showing
that the employer did not comply with the
duty of care or engaged in negligent conduct
▣ Statistical or testimonial evidence
■ It is incumbent on the presumed perpetrator
to demonstrate that the principle of equal
treatment was not breached
16
simplified
evidentiary
rules
17. □ Discrimination extends to cases where a
person is treated unfavourably as they are
associated with a protected ground that
they do not possess (tailor-made)
■ Coleman → in favour of a mother based on
her child’s disability
■ CHEZ → residency associated with ethnicity
▣ “[discriminatory] decisions are made on the
basis of characteristics related to, but
different from, protected grounds”
■ QUESTION: are steps a proxy for sex?
▣ What if a behavioural/economic incentive is
based on the number of steps taken?
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by proxy &
association
18. □ Hesitancy or reluctance to fulfil the duty
under Art. 15 GDPR (access rights) may be
used in court as circumstantial evidence
supporting a prima facie discrimination case
■ The CJEU added that “refusal to grant any
access to information may be one of the
factors to take into account in the context
of establishing facts from which
[discriminaton] may be presumed” in Meister
■ The “interventionist” role of DPAs is crucial,
as they have the resources necessary to
facilitate access to documents
▣ Are worker reps familiar with DPAs?
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access to
information
20. Art. 9 health data is not
processable, but… OSH!
Art. 35 DPIA
(risk mitigation)
Art. 13, 14, 15
information &
access rights
Art. 22 ban on ADMS & profiling
(work-related exceptions +
objection & human intervention)
Recital 71 (explanation)
Discrimination litigation:
effects are crucial, no need
to “open the black box”
intent does not
matter + simplified
burden of proof
(triggering ex ante
compliance)
association (Coleman),
proxy (CHEZ, residency),
reluctance to provide data
(Meister → Art. 15 GDPR)
A relational
approach towards
data legibility &
equality
21. □ With wearable devices and algorithmic
management “harms typically arise from
how systems classify and stigmatise groups”
□ This intrinsic “data network effect” requires
responses at the collective level
■ Data protection law is rather individualistic
and defensive in nature
■ Non-discrimination struggles to capture the
disparate effects stemming from ADMS
affecting persons with characteristics
outside the circle of protected grounds
▣ comparisons are not easy at the individual
level
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overcoming
the current
limitations
22. a cultural
paradigm
shift □ Retrospective and complaint-led answers
■ Issues mobilised in isolation + damage-
control approach
□ More strategic, less litigation
■ Towards a pre-emptive model
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pro-actively fostering
equality &
accountability
preventive
business practices are
shaped, not only
challenged
multidimensional
involvement of
workers’ reps as a
“force multiplier”
collective
23. workers are
not
defenceless 3. co-design
and training
Workers are in the
best position to draw
up internal rules due
to their knowledge
of operational
practices and
hurdles
Workers’
representatives can
foster digital literacy
1. consultation
Conducted from the
earliest phases
when companies are
considering the
installation or
revision of
electronic devices
The lawfulness for
data collecting and
processing
(Art. 5 GDPR)
2. multistakeholder risk assessment and ex-post litigation
- Trade union representatives: (i) participating in the DPIA + filing claims before a
court and exercising data protection rights before the employer or the DPA
“independently of a data subject’s mandate” (Art. 80 GDPR).
- The same rights are laid down in the proposed EU Dir. on Platform Work (Art. 14)
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24. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and
Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement N. 893888
Antonio Aloisi
thank you!
antonio.aloisi@ie.edu
bossexmachina.ie.edu
@_aloisi