---
title: "AI Data Processing Compliance"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/technology-and-digital-law-en/ai-data-processing-compliance-en"
field: "Technology & Digital Law"
description: "Data processing in AI systems under Georgian law: principles, legal bases, automated decisions and impact assessment. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-15"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# AI Data Processing Compliance

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/technology-and-digital-law-en/ai-data-processing-compliance-en

## About this service

Artificial-intelligence systems live on data: they collect, analyse, classify and make decisions based on it. The Georgian law on personal data protection contains no separate chapter for artificial intelligence — and that is the first thing anyone working in this field must know. Processing within such systems is assessed under the law's general norms: the principles of processing, the legal bases, the special regime for automated decisions and the impact-assessment duty. This service builds the legal assessment of your system on precisely these four pillars — from product design to operation.

## The principles — where every assessment begins

Article 4 of the law establishes the principles of processing, which extend fully to AI systems: data must be processed lawfully, fairly, transparently for the subject and without violating their dignity; data must be collected only for concrete, clearly defined and legitimate purposes, and further processing incompatible with the original purpose is impermissible; data must be processed only to the extent necessary for the purpose; and data must be accurate. For AI, concrete questions quickly arise here: how transparent is it that a model uses a subject's data; whether the use of training data is compatible with the purpose of collection; and whether the collected volume is genuinely necessary. The law also contemplates follow-on questions: in processing for another purpose, account must be taken of the connection between the original and the new purpose, the nature of the relationship between the controller and the subject, the subject's reasonable expectations and more.

## Legal bases — why the processing is permitted

Under Article 5, processing is permitted where one of the bases exists: the subject's consent for one or several specific purposes; necessity for the performance of an obligation under a contract with the subject or for concluding one; provision by law; necessity for duties imposed by legislation; public availability of the data; protection of vital interests; significant public interest and others. In an AI system this question is no formality: the training corpus, the product's functioning and internal analytics often serve different purposes, and each may require a different basis. Choosing the basis and documenting it is precisely the work that must be done at the design stage of the system.

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### Is there a separate data law for artificial intelligence?

No. The law contains no separate AI chapter — processing in such systems is assessed under the general principles, the legal bases, the automated-decision regime and the impact-assessment duty.

### When is a solely automated decision prohibited?

Where it produces legal or similarly significant effects for the subject, it is permitted only on explicit consent, in connection with a contract or by law — and the subject may demand human intervention, express a view and contest the decision.

### When is an impact assessment mandatory?

Where new technologies create a high probability of risk to rights, and additionally in cases of fully automated significant decisions, large volumes of special-category data and systematic large-scale monitoring. The assessment is a written document retained for at least 1 year after processing ceases.

### What if the system uses data for a purpose other than collection?

The law deems further processing incompatible with the original purpose impermissible. Compatibility assessment must account for the connection between purposes, the nature of the relationship with the subject and the subject's reasonable expectations.