Data Owner
What is Data Owner?
The individual or role within an organization who has authority and accountability for the management, quality, and appropriate use of specific data assets.
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What the standards actually require on data owner
Requirements naming data owner across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Notify the data owner where a breach affects that person's personal data (6.3); notice to the data owner is not required where the provider has taken appropriate technical and organisational protection measures and applied them to the personal data affected by...
kuwait-citra-data-privacy-protection-regulation-decision-no-26-of-2024::6.3 · 6.3 Notice to the data owner, and when it is not required →Data management policy defines and mandates the data owner role and its responsibilities and extends them to data hosted in cloud environments, including new data types the cloud providers generate (such as API and application logs).
edm-council-cdmc-cloud-data-management-capability-framework::1.2.1 · 1.2.1 Data owner role and responsibilities are defined →Make sure the people responsible for data are included in decisions about ICT, AI and emerging technologies.
australian-government-data-governance-framework-2025::A.4.3 · A.4.3 Involve data owners in ICT, AI and emerging technology decisions →Roles and responsibilities for computerized systems are clearly defined and communicated, including those of the process, system and data owners, the quality unit, subject matter experts, suppliers and end users, together with who approves what and what each a...
gamp-5-good-automated-manufacturing-practice::6.1.2 · 6.1.2 Identifying Clear Roles and Responsibilities →When a data spill occurs, data owners are advised and access to the data is restricted.
ISM-0133 · Handling and containing data spills →Tell the data owner which sub-processors will access their personal or sensitive data before that processing starts.
CCM-DSP-14 · Disclosure of Data Sub-processors →Questions people ask about data owner
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