“For some of the uses described in Information Uses above, we may use technological tools that render decisions about you automatically. These include tools that detect fraud, which may lead to account deactivation.”
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Automated tools making deactivation decisions mean a user's account can be shut down without human review of the individual circumstances.
Interpretive note: The excerpt references additional automated decision uses beyond fraud detection; only the fraud-detection-to-deactivation chain is stated as the canonical claim because it is the most consequential independent proposition.
A user's account may be deactivated as a result of an automated fraud-detection decision by Instacart's systems.
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"For some of the uses described in Information Uses above, we may use technological tools that render decisions about you automatically. These include tools that detect fraud, which may lead to account deactivation.Excerpt from Instacart's Privacy Policy
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Automated tools making deactivation decisions mean a user's account can be shut down without human review of the individual circumstances.
A user's account may be deactivated as a result of an automated fraud-detection decision by Instacart's systems.
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