All 99 Articles Chapter 3: Rights of the Data Subject
People have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing — including profiling — that has legal or similarly significant effects, save in defined cases with safeguards.
Key points
- Solely automated significant decisions are restricted.
- Where permitted, people get safeguards including human intervention.
- Increasingly central as organisations deploy AI.
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