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Automated decision-making safeguards

Process guaranteeing a right to human review, an ability to contest, and a documented rationale for any solely-automated decision with significant effect.

  • directive
  • data-protection
  • automated-decisions
  • policy

What it does

Builds a human-review path, a right to express a view, and a documented, explainable rationale into any decision pipeline that could otherwise operate as a solely-automated decision with legal or similarly significant effect.

Where it fits

The direct mitigation for automated-decision-making-without-safeguards, and the mechanism that makes inadequate-explainability-for-affected-individuals actionable rather than theoretical.

Risks this mitigates

The risks this control addresses, ranked by effectiveness.

Framework and clause references

FrameworkClauseTitle
UK General Data Protection RegulationArticle 22Automated individual decision-making, including profiling