# Automated individual decision-making, including profiling 22(a) — GDPR — provision context

> Focused context for a single provision (22(a)), curated from overview.legal on 2026-08-22. Canonical: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-22#par-2-pnt-a
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Part of **Automated individual decision-making, including profiling** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-22).

## Provision text

### 22(a)

is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller;


## Topics on this provision

- **Data Controller** — https://overview.legal/topics/verwerkingsverantwoordelijke
  The entity that determines purposes and means of processing personal data
- **Personal Data** — https://overview.legal/topics/persoonsgegevens
  Information relating to identified or identifiable natural persons
- **Processing** — https://overview.legal/topics/verwerking
  Any operation performed on personal data
- **Controllers** — https://overview.legal/topics/controllers
  Entities that determine purposes and means of processing

## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? Ten improvements for the upcoming tenth anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation** (literature) — https://overview.legal/posts/53843
- **HOW GDPR TREATS AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING** (literature) — https://overview.legal/posts/132599

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