This course aims to analyse automated algorithmic decision-making systems through a multidisciplinary approach to understand how they work and, consequently, how to assess such software from a legal point of view, particularly in cases where the results they produce cause discriminatory effects. 

To this end, it is necessary to examine the relationship between the principle of equality, the protection of privacy and the massive processing of personal and non-personal data that feed the algorithms themselves. 

Although underestimated, the intrusion of such programmes in everyday life deserves attention to gain awareness that their main feature, i.e., decision-making automation, does not concern hypothetical autonomy and independence of judgement but involves obedience to instructions predetermined by their programmers.