Explainable AI could reduce the impact of biased algorithms

On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect across the EU, requiring sweeping changes to how organizations handle personal data. And GDPR standards have real teeth: For most violations, organizations have to pay a penalty of up to €20 million or 4 percent of global revenue, whichever is greater. With the Cambridge Analytica scandal fresh on people's minds, many hope that GDPR will become a model for a new standard of data privacy around the world. We've already heard some industry leaders calling for Facebook to apply GDPR standards to its business in non-EU countries, even though the law doesn't require it. But privacy is only one aspect of the debate around the use of data-driven systems.