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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.

Privacy and Data Protection

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data accuracy. The number is how many controls name both.

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

What is Data Accuracy?
The principle that personal data must be accurate, kept up to date, and corrected or erased when inaccuracies are identified.
Why is Data Accuracy important for compliance?
Data Accuracy is a key concept in Privacy and Data Protection. Understanding data accuracy helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Data Accuracy?
Data Accuracy appears in the requirement text of AICPA Privacy Management Framework (PMF), FATF Recommendation 16 - Virtual Asset Travel Rule, ISO 8000 - Data Quality, Switzerland New Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP/nDSG, 2023), Uzbekistan Law on Personal Data (No. ZRU-547). Across these standards we have identified 6 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Data Accuracy?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how data accuracy applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Data Accuracy applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.