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The route by which a person affected by an automated decision reaches a reviewer who did not take the original decision, sees the inputs, the reasons and the person's representations, and can change the outcome, with the result written back to the decision record. It is how the right to contest in GDPR Article 22(3) is honoured in practice 1.

Developed in
ch. 19, GDPR Article 22 after SCHUFA
ch. 05, Pattern: Decision Notice & Contest Path
Chapters
ch. 05, Patterns · ch. 19, Privacy & AI · ch. 22, Principles & Standards
Contrast with
Contestability
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

4 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

4 pattern pages use the term, most mentions first.

  • Automated decision-making (ADM)

    A decision about a person taken by automated means.

  • Decision notice

    The notice a person receives at the point of an automated or AI-assisted decision, rendered from a versioned template and the decision record: that a system…

  • Reason code

    A stable, human-readable statement of a principal factor behind an adverse decision, mapped from the factors the model actually scored and versioned with the…

Sources

  1. [1] Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) (Arts. 4(1), 4(5), 4(7), 4(8), 4(12), 4(14), 5, 6, 9, 12(3), 22, 25, 28(2) and 28(4), 30, 33, 35; Recital 26). Publications Office of the EU (EUR-Lex). 2016-04-27. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Contest path. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/contest-path. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026contestpath,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Contest path}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/contest-path}
}