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Interview question · AI Governance, Risk & Compliance

GDPR and AI: lawful basis, when a DPIA is required, and what Article 22 says about automated decisions.

Three GDPR questions that shape every AI system handling EU personal data. The scored answer gets the legal structure right and turns each into engineering work.

hardNewPreparation tags: Microsoft, Google, MetaUpdated Nov 2026

Three GDPR questions that shape every AI system handling EU personal data. The scored answer gets the legal structure right and turns each into engineering work.

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What would you say before reading the answer?

  1. 01 State the assumptions your answer depends on.
  2. 02 Explain the mechanism and choose a control.
  3. 03 Name a condition that would change your decision.

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A company in the EU plans to train a model on customer support transcripts to improve its support assistant, and later use the model to decide refund eligibility automatically.

  1. What lawful basis could cover training?
  2. Is a data protection impact assessment needed?
  3. What if refund decisions are fully automated?
  4. What data minimisation steps apply before training?
  5. What if a customer asks for erasure after training?
  6. What would your GDPR plan include?

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