Agreed. We're overdue for a Magna Carta for our new era, lest we be absolutely ruled by the ever-growing myriad of algorithms and models that govern our participation in society and economy.
It upsets me that we've ceded control of a nontrivial part of our lives to a bunch of opaque risk scoring algorithms. No one knows how they work and even if they did they couldn't tell you because that could "help the bad guys". My mom just called me the other day and told me she got locked out of her Google account after trying to reset her password. Who knows what tripwire she accidentally walked into (maybe has to do with the fact that it's a big household that probably has 10 Google accounts on the same IP address). You can find it in a bunch of other places too. Discord will give you vague error messages when you try to sign up with a VOIP number that magically go away when you use a regular number. "Card processing error" when you use a prepaid card. Of course ReCaptcha won't even let you fill out a form if you have an IP address that has ever been associated with known undesirables.
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