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Ask HN: Has anyone leveraged GDPR to overturn automated bans?

There are many headlines of people getting their <FAANG/Big Company> accounts banned and losing access to a lot of important documents or services. Often, trying to talk to support on any of these companies is akin to talking to a wall.

However, GDPR has a clause stating that "The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing". Which would mean that any EU/EEA citizen should have the right to have the decision reviewed by a human.

Has anyone successfully overturned a banned account using this method?

146 points ndmrs 4 years ago 74 comments

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