EU regulators spent 9 July at the European Parliament on one question: can an algorithm legally reject you for a job? The EDPS and EDPB conference was a reminder that GDPR Article 22 has restricted solely-automated hiring decisions since 2018, and 25 DPAs are now auditing how clearly firms explain this. Here's the part teams miss: a human who rubber-stamps the AI's call isn't oversight. If you can't show a person actually weighed the decision, you don't have a lawful process, you have a paper trail.