Automated Decisions, Profiling, And Data Subject Rights In Nigeria

1. INTRODUCTION

In a digital economy that is becoming increasingly driven by data, automated decision-making and profiling have become essential components of numerous service provisioning, including credit scoring, employment recruitment, targeted advertising, and healthcare management. While these technologies offer efficiency, they also give rise to considerable concerns regarding privacy, discrimination, and accountability. At the heart of contemporary data protection legislation is the acknowledgment of the rights of data subjects to be safeguarded against possible harms that may result from entirely automated decisions.

In the context of data protection and privacy regulations, a data subject refers to an individual whose personal information is collected, processed, or stored by an organization or entity.¹ This encompasses customers, employees, website users, or persons whose personal data are managed by an organization. Data Subject Rights (DSR) refer to