Special Category Data
What is Special Category Data?
Personal data types that require additional protections under GDPR, including racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, and health data.
Terms that appear alongside special category data
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as special category data. The number is how many controls name both.
- gdpr 9 shared controls
- consent 9 shared controls
- data protection 8 shared controls
- lawful basis 5 shared controls
- data subject 5 shared controls
- data protection officer 4 shared controls
- impact assessment 3 shared controls
- compliance 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern special category data
What the standards actually require on special category data
Requirements naming special category data across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Apply heightened controls to special category data (health, biometrics, race, religion, political views) including explicit consent or statutory exception.
AM-DPA-03 · Special Category Data Restrictions →Greece Law 4624/2019 Chapter A - General Provisions (Articles 1-4). SCOPE: applies to processing of personal data by public + private bodies in Greece + extra-territorial application per GDPR Article 3 + supplements GDPR + transposes LEDP.
GR-DPA-ChapterA-Scope-LawfulBasis-Defs · Greece Law 4624/2019 Chapter A - General Provisions, Scope, Definitions and Greek-Specific Lawful Bases →Chapter II Personal Data Processing establishes lawful processing requirements. Section 5 (Lawfulness) requires processing be based on: (a) data subject consent, or (b) legal authorisation.
HU-INFOTV-Chap2-Lawful-Basis-Special-Categories-Sections-5-6 · HU Infotv Chap II - Lawful Basis + Special Categories of Personal Data (Sections 5-6) →Special categories of data for substantial public interest. Article 8 implements GDPR Article 9.2.g, designating processing of special-category data necessary for reasons of substantial public interest and the safeguards that apply.
BE-DPA-5 · Processing of special categories for substantial public interest →Establish the lawful basis for research processing (e.g. public interest/legitimate interest or consent) and the Article 9(2)(j) condition for special-category data, subject to Article 89 safeguards.
RDCOC-LAW-01 · Lawful Basis for Research →Reforms the rules on automated decision-making, permitting a wider range of solely automated decisions subject to safeguards (information to data subjects, the ability to make representations, obtain human intervention and contest decisions), with tighter rule...
DUAA-P5-ADM · Automated decision-making reforms →Questions people ask about special category data
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