What Is Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA)?
Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) is a structured assessment of how a high-risk AI system may affect people's fundamental rights, carried out before deployment.
Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) — a structured assessment of how a high-risk AI system may affect people's fundamental rights, carried out before deployment.
A FRIA is the EU AI Act's requirement (Article 27) for certain deployers of high-risk AI — including public bodies and some private operators — to work through who could be affected, what harms could occur, and what safeguards are in place, before the system goes live. It complements rather than replaces a data protection impact assessment (DPIA), which focuses specifically on privacy.
Source: EU AI Act, Article 27
Plain-language explanation
A FRIA is the EU AI Act's requirement (Article 27) for certain deployers of high-risk AI — including public bodies and some private operators — to work through who could be affected, what harms could occur, and what safeguards are in place, before the system goes live. It complements rather than replaces a data protection impact assessment (DPIA), which focuses specifically on privacy.
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