Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) · 10 June 2021
Foodinho s.r.l.
Non-compliance with general data processing principles
- Regulator
- Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Decided
- 10 June 2021
- Country
- Italy
- Sector
- Industry and Commerce
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2021/IT/043
What happened
The Italian DPA fined the digital platform, Foodinho, €2,600,000 for using discriminatory algorithms to manage its food delivery riders. Among other violations, Foodinho failed to supply transparent information about how its reputational rating system for riders works. The investigation revealed that the rating system enabled discriminatory ratings that would exclude riders from job opportunities.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subjectRead →
- Art. 22Automated individual decision-making, including profiling22(3)Read →
- Art. 25Data protection by design and by defaultRead →
- Art. 32Security of processingRead →
- Art. 35Data protection impact assessmentRead →
- Art. 37Designation of the data protection officer37(7)Read →
- Accountability
- DPIA
- Data principles
- Data protection officer
- Data security
- Data subject rights
- Transparency
Sources
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