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technical measures for transparency could be implemented
to achieve compliance with the law.
A procedural checklist for designers might be a suitable
instrument to guide the design process concerning meeting transparency requirements.

Acknowledgments
The authors are listed in alphabetical order. All authors contributed equally to this article. Part of this project was
funded by the LEaDing Fellows Marie Curie COFUND fellowship, a project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement number 707404.
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Heike Felzmann, National University of Ireland, Galway. Email:
Heike.felzmann@nuigalway.ie.
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Email: e.fosch
.villaronga@law.leidenuniv.nl.
Christoph Lutz, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo. Email:
christoph.lutz@bi.no.
Aurelia Tamo-Larrieux, Center for Information Technology,
Society, and Law, University of Zürich, Switzerland. Email:
aurelia.tamo-larrieux@uzh.ch.
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