Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) · Chapter III · Rights of the data subject
Art. 22 · Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
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The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
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Paragraph 1 shall not apply if the decision:
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is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller;
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is authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests; or
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is based on the data subject’s explicit consent.
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In the cases referred to in points (a) and (c) of paragraph 2, the data controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision.
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Decisions referred to in paragraph 2 shall not be based on special categories of personal data referred to in Article 9(1), unless point (a) or (g) of Article 9(2) applies and suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests are in place.
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Restrictions
Text: EUR-Lex, CELEX 32016R0679 (consolidated text with corrigenda).
Commentary
The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing with legal or similarly significant effects, subject to exceptions (contract, legal basis, explicit consent) and safeguards including human intervention. According to the CJEU judgment in C-634/21 SCHUFA (7 December 2023), an automated credit-scoring assessment is already such a decision where a third party draws on it decisively for its own decision. The forerunner of Art. 86 of the AI Act, which addresses the same situation from the procedural side.