1 Scope
This document contains guidelines for developing and establishing policies and procedures for deletion of personally identifiable information (PII) in organizations by specifying:
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— a harmonized terminology for PII deletion;
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— an approach for defining deletion rules in an efficient way;
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— a description of required documentation;
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— a broad definition of roles, responsibilities and processes.
This document is intended to be used by organizations where PII is stored or processed.
This document does not address:
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— specific legal provision, as given by national law or specified in contracts;
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— specific deletion rules for particular clusters of PII that are defined by PII controllers for processing PII;
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— deletion mechanisms;
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— reliability, security and suitability of deletion mechanisms;
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— specific techniques for de-identification of data.