If it can be automated, then obviously, yeah.

If not fully automated, many CI platforms allow you to pause the pipeline by requiring manual confirmation from an authorized user. I know Jenkins and CircleCI support this off the top of my head. You could have the CI perform any relevant searches or diffs, then display that to the user to get manual confirmation. It’s still not “perfect”, but it does allow you to reliably get someone to look at the data and say “yes” or “no.”

Yeah, that's one approach. Another might be to commit some kind of `./legal/sign-off-v1.0.0` so you can see who did it, and so travis can know if it should deploy the build or not