CK v Dun & Bradstreet Austria - case no. C-203/22 from the Court of Justice of
the European Union (CJEU)—arises from a dispute in Austria
over access to "meaningful information about the logic
involved" in an automated credit-scoring process.
The City Council of Vienna was dealing with the enforcement of a
court order that required Dun & Bradstreet Austria (D&B), a
credit-assessment company, to provide CK (an individual) with an
explanation of the procedure and principles actually applied when
profiling her personal data to generate a credit score.
The scoring had been used by a mobile telephony provider to
refuse to conclude or renew a contract with CK. D&B provided
only limited explanations and invoked trade-secret protection,
according to Austrian law, also generally limited access where
business or trade secrets could be affected.
