Poland forced to scrap unemployed worker profiling system

Poland's government announced it would terminate a controversial algorithmic scoring system that made decisions about what support individuals get based on their personal data and answers to job centre interviews.

The country's Constitutional Court ruled that the system was a breach of the Polish constitution on the basis that the scope of data used by it should have been set out in the legal act adopted by parliament, not decided by the government, and that it should be closed by the end of 2019.

The case had been referred to the court by Poland's Human Rights Commissioner.