Three Key Principles Associated with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
- Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: Companies must collect and process personal data lawfully, fairly, and transparently. This means that individuals must be clearly informed about how their data is collected, processed, and used. Additionally, companies must obtain explicit consent from individuals before collecting or processing their personal data.
- Purpose limitation: Companies may collect and process personal data only for specific, legitimate, and pre-defined purposes. The data collected must be used solely for the purposes for which they were gathered and cannot be processed later in a manner incompatible with these purposes.
- Data minimization: Companies must collect and process only the personal data that is strictly necessary to achieve the intended purposes. The data collected must be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary. It is crucial to avoid collecting excessive or unnecessary data.
These principles are at the core of the GDPR and are designed to ensure that personal data is collected and processed in an ethical, legal, and responsible manner while respecting individuals’ privacy rights. Companies must ensure compliance with these principles when collecting, processing, and managing personal data to adhere to the GDPR.
