Algorithms Regulatory Frameworks & Compliance 3

Question 1

Which GDPR provision gives individuals the right to contest purely automated decisions that significantly affect them?

Accepted Answer

Article 22 – Automated Decision-Making

Answer

GDPR Article 22 gives individuals the right not to be subject to solely automated decisions with significant effects, and to request human review.

Question 2

A healthcare algorithm recommends treatment plans without physician review. Which U.S. regulatory body would have primary oversight?

Accepted Answer

FDA

Answer

The FDA regulates software as a medical device (SaMD), including AI/ML algorithms that make clinical recommendations.

Question 3

What is 'differential privacy' and why is it relevant to algorithmic compliance?

Accepted Answer

A technique that adds statistical noise to protect individual data privacy

Answer

Differential privacy adds calibrated noise to data or outputs so that individual records cannot be identified, helping comply with privacy regulations.

Question 4

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), what right do consumers have regarding automated profiling?

Accepted Answer

The right to opt out of the sale of personal information used in profiling

Answer

CCPA grants consumers the right to opt out of the sale of their personal information, which directly limits data available for profiling algorithms.

Question 5

Which concept requires that an algorithm's decision boundary cannot be changed after deployment to prevent retroactive bias?

Accepted Answer

Model immutability

Answer

Model immutability ensures that once deployed, a model's decision logic is frozen, preventing post-hoc manipulation that could introduce or hide bias.

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Algorithms Regulatory Frameworks & Compliance 3