Part 4: Intelligence services processing Chapter 3: Rights of data subjects Sections 96 to 98: Rights related to decision-making
Sections 96 and 97 provide for a general right for data subjects not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing and resulting in adverse legal effects or any other significant impacts. It allows for such decisions to be made in certain circumstances, such as when required or authorised by law. In the case of an automated decision being taken when required or authorised by law, the controller must notify the data subject that the decision has been made. In these circumstances, the data subject has a right to ask the controller to reconsider the decision or to take a new decision not based solely on automated processing (section 97).
	Section 98 confers on data subjects a right to obtain the reasoning underlying the processing of data which results in a decision being applied to the data subject (whether or not as a result of automated decision-making).