Across the US, regulating automated employment decision tools is starting to become more of a priority. One state that has taken steps to increase the accountability surrounding the use of technology in the workplace and reduce the potential harm is California, which has proposed California Workplace Technology Accountability Act (AB-1651). The main contributions of this Act are to restrict the data that can be collected about workers to only activities that have proven business necessity, give workers access to their data, and require data protection and algorithmic impact assessments of worker information systems and automated decision tools, respectively.

Here are the 10 things that you need to know about this proposed California Workplace Technology Act:‍