Legal Intersections, Liability, and the Failure Files

Where AI governance meets the courtroom: GDPR Article 22 and the SCHUFA doctrine, the liability regimes that decide who pays when AI fails, and the forensic post-mortems — COMPAS, Amazon, the toeslagenaffaire, Clearview, Air Canada, NEDA Tessa — each traced to the control that would have caught it.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

1. GDPR Article 22: the automated-decision backstop
2. Who pays when AI fails
3. The failure files I: COMPAS, Amazon, and the toeslagenaffaire
4. The failure files II: Clearview, Air Canada, and NEDA’s Tessa
5. The failure taxonomy: which control would have caught it?