Since the author is French, I believe the GDPR allows for a "right to an explanation." From the GDPR:
The data subject should have the right not to be subject to a decision, which may include a measure, evaluating personal aspects relating to him or her which is based solely on automated processing and which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her, such as automatic refusal of an online credit application or e-recruiting practices without any human intervention.
[...] such processing should be subject to suitable safeguards, which should include specific information to the data subject and the right to obtain human intervention, to express his or her point of view, to obtain an explanation of the decision reached after such assessment and to challenge the decision.
If you were employed to write apps you would have a solid wrongful termination case. But I guess google gets to write it's own employment law. This needs to get fixed.
This is probably my biggest fear ever since getting a strike on my account. It led me to stop making android apps for personal use altogether and move away as far as possible from Google. I can't risk my email, photos and everything else being shut down for no reason at all. Google is way too shady about all this. And its a damn shame, I love making android apps.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 20.6 ms ] threadThe data subject should have the right not to be subject to a decision, which may include a measure, evaluating personal aspects relating to him or her which is based solely on automated processing and which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her, such as automatic refusal of an online credit application or e-recruiting practices without any human intervention.
[...] such processing should be subject to suitable safeguards, which should include specific information to the data subject and the right to obtain human intervention, to express his or her point of view, to obtain an explanation of the decision reached after such assessment and to challenge the decision.
https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/r71.htm