Data Accuracy
What is Data Accuracy?
The principle that personal data must be accurate, kept up to date, and corrected or erased when inaccuracies are identified.
Terms that appear alongside data accuracy
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data accuracy. The number is how many controls name both.
- data subject 3 shared controls
- integrity 2 shared controls
- consent 2 shared controls
- data subject rights 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern data accuracy
What the standards actually require on data accuracy
Requirements naming data accuracy across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Organisation maintains accurate, complete, and relevant personal information for the purposes for which it is used.
PMF-DI.1 · Data Accuracy →Data quality + accuracy: Travel Rule information must be accurate + complete + transmitted in a format that the receiving VASP can process.
R.16-VATR.DataQuality · Data accuracy, validation and quality assurance →Define and exchange master data accuracy metadata so consumers can judge fitness for purpose.
ISO8000-130 · Master Data: Accuracy →Controllers must take all reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is accurate and up to date, with mechanisms for data subjects to rectify incorrect data and to have unlawfully processed data destroyed or corrected.
CH-FADP-05 · Data accuracy and rectification →Controllers must ensure the accuracy and currency of personal data. Inaccurate or incomplete data must be corrected, supplemented, blocked or destroyed upon the request of the data subject or upon detection.
UZB-DPL-07 · Data Accuracy and Quality →Accuracy. Section 21 requires organisations to make a reasonable effort to ensure personal data collected is accurate and complete, where it may be used to make a decision affecting the individual or disclosed.
BN-PDPO-s21 · Accuracy of personal data →Questions people ask about data accuracy
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