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Personal Information Protection

What is Personal Information Protection?

Laws and practices governing the collection, use, disclosure, and safeguarding of personal information, varying by jurisdiction and sector.

Privacy and Data Protection

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

What the standards actually require on personal information protection

Requirements naming personal information protection across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

A PIPIA must be conducted in advance, and records kept, before handling sensitive PI, automated decision-making, entrusting/providing/disclosing PI, or cross-border provision.

PIPL-Art55 · Personal Information Protection Impact Assessment

Privacy (Puraibasii プライバシー) is the fourth of 10 Principles per Japan AI Guidelines for Business + intersects with APPI Act on Protection of Personal Information (2022 Amendment effective April 2023) + Copyright Act 2018 Amendment Article 30-4 (text and data mi...

JP-AIG-Data-Governance-Training-Data-Quality-Provenance-Lineage-Copyright-APPI-Personal-Information-Protection · Japan AI Guidelines Data Governance + Training Data Quality + Provenance + Lineage + Copyright Act 2018 Article 30-4 Text Data Mining Exception + APPI 2022 Amendment + Personal Information Protection + Privacy Principle

Per RCEP E-Commerce Chapter Article 12.13: online personal information protection including legal framework + enforcement + cross-border consistency.

RCEPEC-1 · Online Personal Information Protection (12.13)

Per USMCA Article 19.8: personal information protection + Consumer protection in e-commerce + Unsolicited commercial electronic communications.

USMCADIGITAL-2 · Personal Information Protection and Consumer Protection

Network operators must not disclose, tamper with or destroy collected personal information, nor provide it to others without consent;

CSL-Art42 · Personal Information Protection and Breach Handling - Art. 42

Each Party shall adopt or maintain a legal framework that provides for the protection of the personal information of users of electronic commerce and digital trade, taking into account international principles, guidelines and criteria (e.g., the APEC Privacy F...

DEPA-4.2 · Personal Information Protection

Questions people ask about personal information protection

What is Personal Information Protection?
Laws and practices governing the collection, use, disclosure, and safeguarding of personal information, varying by jurisdiction and sector.
Why is Personal Information Protection important for compliance?
Personal Information Protection is a key concept in Privacy and Data Protection. Understanding personal information protection 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 Personal Information Protection?
Personal Information Protection appears in the requirement text of China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), Japan AI Guidelines, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) - E-Commerce Chapter, USMCA Chapter 19 - Digital Trade (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement), China Cybersecurity Law (CSL). Across these standards we have identified 13 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Personal Information Protection?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how personal information protection 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 Personal Information Protection 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.