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 to suit the purposes it is used for.
PMF-DI.1 · 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 →The bank must have documented, validated and independently audited procedures for identifying, collecting and treating internal loss data, based on a 10-year observation period (minimum five years on an exceptional basis, including all good-quality years beyon...
basel-iii-international-banking-framework::OPE25-LOSS · Identify, collect and treat internal operational loss data to the minimum standards →Sets the minimum standards for the commercial credit reference agency scheme: comprehensive participation by AIs and their subsidiaries; customer consent from SME limited companies and unlimited companies;
hkma-spm::IC-7 · IC-7 The Sharing and Use of Commercial Credit Data through a Commercial Credit Reference Agency →The bank can generate accurate and reliable risk data for normal and stress reporting, aggregated largely automatically to limit errors. Controls over risk data are as robust as those over accounting data;
bcbs-239::P3 · Principle 3: accuracy and integrity of risk data →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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