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This paper examines systemic data bias through a legal-technical lifecycle analysis that maps recurring bias mechanisms, from data collection and annotation to model training, evaluation, and deployment, to the regulatory control points established under the EU AI Act. Drawing on cross-sectoral examples from employment screening, credit scoring, healthcare risk prediction, biometric identification, and autonomous systems, the analysis demonstrates how technical bias mechanisms translate into systemic governance and accountability challenges. The findings reveal persistent regulatory gaps, including limited auditability of training datasets, the absence of mandatory fairness metrics, insufficient transparency regarding model behavior, and weak mechanisms for post-deployment monitoring and accountability. These results highlight a structural misalignment between lifecycle-based bias dynamics and the Act\u2019s category-driven compliance framework. 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