Data controller
The party determining purposes and essential means of personal-data processing under privacy law.
What Data controller does not show
Contract labels do not override the party’s actual role.
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Questions about Data controller
What is Data controller?
The party determining purposes and essential means of personal-data processing under privacy law.
What does Data controller not show or guarantee?
Contract labels do not override the party’s actual role.
Which area of the glossary does Data controller belong to?
Governance and rights: Who may use content for what: rights reservations, opt-outs, licences, model documentation and the accountability vocabulary around them.
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