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GDPR · Article 22

Safeguards on automated decisions.

Applies to: Anyone making automated decisions on EU persons.

What the signed record shows

Records the safeguard state and oversight around solely-automated decisions.

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Citation: Art 22(1)/(3), 13/14, 5(2), 30

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What the statute requires, section by section

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation). Provisions addressed by this mapper, mapped from the per-decision signed record:

Article 22(1)
Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing producing legal/similarly significant effects (the automated decision and the system producing it are identified).
Article 22(3)
Suitable safeguards, including the right to obtain human intervention, to express a view, and to contest the decision (the safeguard control state in force at the decision).
Article 13(2)(f) / 14(2)(g)
Information to the data subject about the existence of automated decision-making and meaningful information about the logic involved (a per-decision processing reference).
Article 5(2)
Accountability (the controller can demonstrate compliance; an accountability record reference per decision).
Article 30
Records of processing activities (a processing record reference).

Taken from the Regulayer entry for this instrument, which is built against the primary text.

This is the duty on the business. For what a lawyer in Europe must disclose about using AI in a filing, see Europe: the EU AI Act, the CCBE guides, and what Germany tells its lawyers.