ISO/IEC 27555:2021
Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection - Guidelines on personally identifiable information deletion
Abstract
This document contains guidelines for developing and establishing policies and procedures for deletion of personally identifiable information (PII) in organizations by specifying:
- a harmonized terminology for PII deletion;
- an approach for defining deletion rules in an efficient way;
- a description of required documentation;
- 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:
- specific legal provision, as given by national law or specified in contracts;
- specific deletion rules for particular clusters of PII that are defined by PII controllers for processing PII;
- deletion mechanisms;
- reliability, security and suitability of deletion mechanisms;
- specific techniques for de-identification of data.
- a harmonized terminology for PII deletion;
- an approach for defining deletion rules in an efficient way;
- a description of required documentation;
- 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:
- specific legal provision, as given by national law or specified in contracts;
- specific deletion rules for particular clusters of PII that are defined by PII controllers for processing PII;
- deletion mechanisms;
- reliability, security and suitability of deletion mechanisms;
- specific techniques for de-identification of data.
Additional information
Publication type | International Standard |
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Publication date | 2021-10-08 |
Edition | 1.0 |
Available language(s) | English |
TC/SC | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 - Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protectionrss |
ICS | 35.030 - IT Security |
Pages | 25 |
File size | 1832 KB |
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