ISO 27555:2021

Description

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.