Joint Controllers
What is Joint Controllers?
Two or more entities that jointly determine the purposes and means of processing personal data, sharing data protection responsibilities.
Terms that appear alongside joint controllers
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as joint controllers. The number is how many controls name both.
- data protection 14 shared controls
- gdpr 12 shared controls
- data subject 11 shared controls
- compliance 9 shared controls
- audit 8 shared controls
- impact assessment 6 shared controls
- consent 6 shared controls
- cybersecurity 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern joint controllers
What the standards actually require on joint controllers
Requirements naming joint controllers across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Sections 24-26 of the Jamaica DPA 2020 establish the framework for Joint Controllers + Processors + Sub-Processors + and Records of Processing Activities.
JM-DPA2020-Joint-Controller-Processor-Sec24-25-26-Arrangements-Allocation-Responsibilities-Contracts · Jamaica DPA 2020 Joint Controllers + Processors + Sections 24-26 + Arrangements + Allocation of Responsibilities + Contracts + Records of Processing Activities (ROPA) + Sub-Processors + Vendor Management →Two or more controllers that jointly determine purposes and means must set out transparently, in a written agreement, their relationship and respective responsibilities for complying with the Law, in particular for data subjects' rights and the information dut...
albania-law-no-124-2024-on-personal-data-protection::24 · Article 24: joint controllers and their written arrangement →Where two or more controllers jointly determine the purposes and means of processing, determine their respective responsibilities for compliance in a transparent manner by an arrangement between them, unless those responsibilities are already determined by Uni...
GDPR-Art.26 · Joint controllers →Chapter II Section 7 establishes data security obligations. Controller and processor shall apply appropriate technical + organisational measures + procedures to protect personal data and the privacy rights of data subjects.
HU-INFOTV-Chap2-Security-Section-7-Processor-Joint-Controllers · HU Infotv Chap II - Section 7 Data Security + Processor + Joint Controllers + Breach Notification (Sections 25-25K) →Article 43: where two or more controllers jointly determine purposes and means they set out their respective responsibilities, especially for rights and information duties, in a transparent arrangement unless a law does so, may name a contact point, and make t...
serbia-law-on-personal-data-protection-2018::43 · Set out joint controllers' responsibilities in a transparent arrangement →Joint controllership arises where two or more entities jointly determine purposes and essential means, an essential criterion being that the processing would not be possible without their concurrent involvement so that each party's processing is inextricably l...
edpb-guidelines-1-2026-on-processing-of-personal-data-for-scientific-research-purposes::7.3 · 7.3 Joint controllers: joint determination of the protocol, an Article 26 arrangement reflecting differing responsibilities and made available to data subjects, processors engaged on agreed terms →Questions people ask about joint controllers
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