Right to Explanation
What is Right to Explanation?
The right of individuals to receive a meaningful explanation of the logic behind automated decisions that significantly affect them.
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What the standards actually require on right to explanation
Requirements naming right to explanation across 5 standards, quoted from the control text.
Right to explanation. Article 8 gives affected persons the right to an explanation about decisions, recommendations or predictions made by AI systems that affect them.
BRAI-A8 · Right to explanation of AI decisions →Individuals have the right to request that handlers explain their personal-information handling rules.
PIPL-Art48 · Right to Explanation of Handling Rules →A deployer must, at the request of an affected person who has been subject to a decision the deployer took on the basis of the output of an Annex III high-risk AI system other than one listed under Annex III point 2, and which produces legal effects or similar...
EUAI-Art.86 · Right to explanation of individual decision-making →Provide consumers with a meaningful explanation of the principal factors and logic involved in an adverse consequential decision generated or materially assisted by an automated system.
VT-AICDA-4 · Right to Explanation of Automated Decisions →Korea PIPA Articles 35-37 + 37-2 data subject rights regime. Article 35 right of access (controller information + processing purposes + categories + retention + recipients + rights).
PIPA-Data-Subject-Rights-Access-Correction-Erasure-Portability-Automated-Decisions-Articles-35-37-2 · Korea PIPA Data Subject Rights + Access + Correction + Erasure + Portability + Article 35-37 →Questions people ask about right to explanation
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