- biometric data
means personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data;
- competent authority
means:
- controller
means the competent authority which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data;
- data concerning health
means personal data related to the physical or mental health of a natural person, including the provision of health care services, which reveal information about his or her health status;
- filing system
means any structured set of personal data which are accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralised, decentralised or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis;
- genetic data
means personal data, relating to the inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person which give unique information about the physiology or the health of that natural person and which result, in particular, from an analysis of a biological sample from the natural person in question;
- international organisation
means an organisation and its subordinate bodies governed by public international law, or any other body which is set up by, or on the basis of, an agreement between two or more countries.
- personal data
means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’);
- personal data breach
means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed;
- processing
means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
- processor
means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;
- profiling
means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements;
- pseudonymisation
means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person;
- recipient
means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not.
- restriction of processing
means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future;
- supervisory authority
means an independent public authority which is established by a Member State pursuant to Article 41;