Legal or similarly significant effects
Outcomes that materially affect an individual's rights or opportunities.
Definition
Outcomes of automated processing that have legal consequences for, or similarly significant impacts on, an individual's rights, opportunities or status (for example affecting access to services, employment, benefits or legal entitlements), which trigger heightened GDPR protections and supervisory scrutiny under the guidance.
Related Terms
significant adverse effect
Materially consequential negative outcome from an automated decision....
Automated decision making with legal or similarly significant effects
Automated decisions altering legal status or similarly significant interests....
Automated decision-making (including profiling)
Decisions by automated systems that may affect individuals' rights....
automated decision
Decision affecting rights made without substantive human intervention....
Significant impact
A context‑specific threshold of material effect or harm....