The GDPR regulates how organizations use 'personal data,' but many don't realize just how much information that covers. Learn how the GDPR defines the term.If you had to summarize the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the briefest way possible, it might be this: The GDPR...
How does the CCPA define 'personal information'? The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) applies to businesses that collect data about residents of the US state of California. The CCPA defines personal information in this way: "'Personal information' means information that identifies, relates to...
For example, GDPR broadly defines personal data and includes identified/identifiable data (any information that could be used to directly identify a person, such as mobile IDs, cookies, and IP addresses), pseudonymous data (scrambled or “hashed” identifiers that could be used indirectly to identi...
What is Personal Data? Personal data (or personal information) is information that can identify an individual. GDPR defines personal data as anything that directly identifies an individual such as a person's name, surname, phone number, social security number, driver's license number or any other...
In the European Union,directive 95/46/ECdefines “personal data” as information which can identify a person via an ID number, or factors specific to physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity. In Australia, the Privacy Act 1988 defines “personal information” as info...
In a nutshell, GDPR defines personal data as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.” Ok, so what does that mean? In addition to the kinds of information you might think about – name, address, email address, financial information, contact information, identi...
medical history and criminal or employment history, and information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as his/her name, SSN, date and place of birth, mother's maiden name, biometric data and including any other personal information that is linked or linkab...
The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) is South Africa's data protection law, designed to regulate how public and private entities process personal information.
While personal data is a subset of sensitive data, there are some distinctions between the two. Personal data refers to any information related to a specific individual, such as a name, address, phone number, and more. Sensitive data, on the other hand, is highly confidential information that...
Canada has two primary data privacy laws: the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the Privacy Act. PIPEDA defines PII as any data that can be used to identify an individual alone or when combined with other information. The Privacy Act has a ...