There is no single, neat statutory provision labeled the “right to explanation” in Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But nor is such a right illusory. Responding to two prominent papers that, in turn, conjure and critique the right to explanation in the context of automated decision-making, we advocate a return to the text of the GDPR. Articles 13-15 provide rights to “meaningful information about the logic involved” in automated decisions. This is a right to explanation, whether one uses the phrase or not. The right to explanation should be interpreted functionally, flexibly, and should, at a minimum, enable a data subject to exercise his or her rights under the GDPR and human rights law.

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有意义的信息和解释权

在欧洲新的《通用数据保护条例》(GDPR) 中，没有单一、简洁的法定条款标记为“解释权”。但这样的权利也不是虚幻的。针对两篇在自动决策背景下引发和批评解释权的著名论文，我们主张回归 GDPR 文本。第 13-15 条规定了在自动决策中“有关所涉及逻辑的有意义信息”的权利。这是一种解释权，无论是否使用该短语。解释权应在功能上、灵活地进行解释，并且至少应使数据主体能够根据 GDPR 和人权法行使他或她的权利。