Personal Data
What is Personal Data?
Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Under GDPR, this includes names, identification numbers, location data, online identifiers, and factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of a person.
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What the standards actually require on personal data
Requirements naming personal data across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Process personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences, or related security measures, only under the control of official authority or where Union or Member State law authorises the processing and provides appropriate safeguards for the rights and...
GDPR-Art.10 · Processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions →A personal data system must be open at all reasonable times to inspection by the Commissioner or an inspection officer, who may require production of the consent records, the records of written notices under s.
malaysia-pdpa-2010::R14 · Regulation 14: personal data systems open to inspection and records producible for each principle →The data subject may require inaccurate personal data to be corrected, or incomplete data held by the controller to be completed, without undue delay.
federal-decree-law-no-45-of-2021-on-the-protection-of-personal-data-uae-pdpl::15(1) · Article 15(1): right to correct or complete personal data →Give information on where personal data is stored, whether inside or outside Kuwait.
kuwait-citra-data-privacy-protection-regulation-decision-no-26-of-2024::4.7 · 4.7 Information on where personal data is stored →The controller must ensure personal data remains accurate, up to date, complete and not misleading.
pdpa-thailand::S35 · Section 35 Accuracy of personal data →The controller or processor must ensure that personal data is complete, accurate, kept up to date and not misleading having regard to the purposes for which it is processed.
rwanda-dpl::15 · Quality of personal data →Questions people ask about personal data
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