Restriction of Processing
What is Restriction of Processing?
The right of individuals to request that a controller limit the processing of their personal data under certain circumstances defined in privacy law.
Terms that appear alongside restriction of processing
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as restriction of processing. The number is how many controls name both.
- data subject 9 shared controls
- right to restriction 8 shared controls
- right to object 7 shared controls
- data portability 7 shared controls
- automated decision making 7 shared controls
- consent 6 shared controls
- data subject rights 6 shared controls
- profiling 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern restriction of processing
What the standards actually require on restriction of processing
Requirements naming restriction of processing across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Restrict processing on request where the data subject contests the accuracy of the data, for a period enabling the controller to verify it; where the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes erasure and asks for restriction instead;
GDPR-Art.18 · Right to restriction of processing →The data subject may obtain restriction where accuracy is contested (while it is verified), processing is unlawful but they oppose erasure, the controller no longer needs the data but they need it for legal claims, or they have objected under Article 19(1) pen...
albania-law-no-124-2024-on-personal-data-protection::17 · Article 17: restriction of processing and the Commissioner's preliminary order →Data subjects may obtain suspension of processing while the controller verifies accuracy they contest; where processing is unlawful and they prefer restriction to deletion; where the controller no longer needs the data but they need them for legal claims;
ley-org-nica-de-protecci-n-de-datos-personales-lopdp::19 · Art. 19: suspension (restriction) of processing →The data subject may obtain restriction while accuracy is verified, where processing is unlawful and erasure is opposed, where the controller no longer needs the data but the data subject needs it for legal claims, or pending verification of an objection.
montenegro-law-on-personal-data-protection-2026::19 · Article 19: right to restriction of processing →The data subject, or the supervisory authority, may restrict the controller's processing for a given period where the accuracy of the data is contested pending verification, where processing is unlawful and the data subject requests erasure or restriction of u...
rwanda-dpl::22 · Right to restriction of processing →The controller must erase data without undue delay where processing would breach the principles, the consent rules or the sensitive processing safeguards, or where it is legally obliged to erase, whether or not the data subject asks;
uk-data-protection-act-2018::s.47 · Section 47 Right to erasure or restriction of processing →Questions people ask about restriction of processing
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