Q: What is Personal Data? | Global Data Protection Agency

Personal Data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (otherwise referred to as a ‘data subject’).

An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, identification number, location data, online identifiers or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Here is an extensive list of Personal Data:

✍ Activity on the site
✍ Age
✍ Arrest records
✍ Bank account
✍ Bankruptcies
✍ Bio-metric identifiers
✍ Birth certificate
✍ Browser
✍ Browsing history (elsewhere online)
✍ Car insurance records
✍ Cell/Mobile phone
✍ Chat history (elsewhere online)
✍ Children’s names
✍ City of birth
✍ Cloud storage files
✍ Contacts list
✍ Cookies
✍ Credit card number
✍ Credit report
✍ Criminal offenses & convictions
✍ Current employer
✍ Current home address
✍ Current income
✍ Current location (physical)
✍ Daily life activities
✍ Date of birth
✍ Debit card number
✍ Device ID / MAC address
✍ Digital fingerprint
✍ Donations to organizations
✍ Driver’s license / state ID
✍ Education history
✍ Email records
✍ Employment history
✍ Event attendance
✍ Eye color
✍ Face photographs
✍ Facial geometry
✍ Family health history
✍ Fingerprints
✍ First name
✍ Friends’ names
✍ Gender
✍ Genetic information
✍ Hair color
✍ Handwriting
✍ Health insurance records
✍ Height
✍ Home phone
✍ Home value
✍ Homeowner status
✍ HR issues & disciplinary actions
✍ Income history
✍ Investment records
✍ IP address
✍ ISP (internet service provider)
✍ Judgements
✍ Language preference
✍ Last name
✍ Length of current residence
✍ Liens
✍ Life insurance records
✍ Likes & ratings
✍ Loan records
✍ Location history (physical)
✍ Maiden name
✍ Marital status
✍ Media preferences
✍ Medical card number
✍ Medical records
✍ Messages on the site
✍ Nationality
✍ Number of people in household
✍ Occupation
✍ Operating system
✍ Other financial statements
✍ Other identifying photographs
✍ Other names used
✍ Pardons
✍ Parents’ names
✍ Passport information
✍ Password
✍ Performance evaluations
✍ Personal email address
✍ Pets & animals
✍ Phone call records
✍ Photo location data
✍ Physical or mental disability
✍ PIN number
✍ Political affiliations & opinions
✍ Political party affiliation
✍ Postal activity
✍ Power of attorney
✍ Prescriptions
✍ Previous addresses
✍ Professional license records
✍ Property records
✍ Racial & ethnic origin
✍ Recreational license records
✍ Reference interviews
✍ Religion & philosophical beliefs
✍ Retina scan
✍ Schools attended
✍ Search history (elsewhere)
✍ Search history on the site
✍ Security question & answer
✍ Sexual orientation
✍ Sexual partners
✍ Shopping & purchase history (elsewhere online)
✍ Shopping & purchase history (offline)
✍ Shopping & purchase history (on the site)
✍ Siblings’ names
✍ Signature
✍ Social media accounts
✍ Social media posts & history
✍ Social security / social insurance number
✍ Spouse name
✍ Surveys (online)
✍ Surveys (offline)
✍ Tax file number
✍ Tax returns
✍ Text message history
✍ Third-party login
✍ Topics of interest
✍ Trade union membership
✍ Username
✍ Vehicle registration records
✍ Veteran status
✍ Video footage
✍ Voice recording
✍ Voice signature
✍ Voter registration records
✍ Website
✍ Weight
✍ Work address
✍ Work email address
✍ Work phone
✍ Writing sample (electronic)

list compiled by TIM BOUCHER

question sent in by Fei Hung from China

We use your information in fulfilling our obligations to you as a member and as permitted to us via GDPR Article 6 “Lawfulness of Processing”, where the processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:

✍ the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

✍ processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;

✍ processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;

✍ processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;

✍ processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;

✍ processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child. (shall not apply to processing carried out by public authorities in the performance of their tasks.)

We don’t abuse, take unlawful advantage or compromise your trust when you provide your information to us, and as such:

☑ We don’t share your information with 3rd parties, unless it is required to complete your request. (One example is when you file a complaint against a third party via our platform, we may be required to share your information with relevant 3rd parties to address your DSAR complaint.)

☑ We don’t sell your information to 3rd parties, period!

☑ We don’t ask or gather irrelevant information from you just for the hell of it.

☑ We don’t hold onto your credit-card information and will never ask for your credit card details. (All payments made by you to us will be via Paypal or Stripe gateways or Direct Bank Transfer.)

☑ We don’t make deliberate errors, therefore if you find something on our site not to be right, feel free to tell us and we’ll address it.

☑ We don’t proclaim to be perfect, though perfection is something we continually strive for.

☑ We don’t display your personal name on our site publicly unless you have given us explicit consent.

☑ We don’t share your details with co-workers within our organization unless they have a legitimate interest within their role.

☑ We don’t store your information on physical servers outside of the European Union.

☑ We don’t spam!

☑ We don’t work with entities that do not comply to GDPR Regulations.

question sent in by Elizabeth.B from UK

OVERVIEW

For us at GDPA, providing you a conference platform you can rely on is the most important thing. That means, amongst other things, we are very mindful of the security and privacy aspects that affect our users.

Security and privacy are very broad topics so we are going to try and go through some practical use cases to demonstrate what’s at play.

Fully secure you say… What does this mean exactly?

In many respects meetings are simply private by design.

To begin with, all meeting rooms are ephemeral: they only exist while the meeting is actually taking place.

They get created when the first participant joins and they are destroyed when the last one leaves. If someone joins the same room again, a brand new meeting is created with the same name and there is no connection to any previous meeting that might have been held with the same name.

This is all very important. Some of the systems that let people “pre-create” rooms, have subtle indications that let a potential attacker distinguish reserved from unreserved meetings which then makes the reserved meetings easier to identify and target.

That said, since a name is all that one needs to actually access a room, we have to be really careful about how we choose them. We don’t want others accidentally stumbling into your meetings, just as we want to keep pranksters and snoopers away. Therefore you simply create a unique name for your conference or use our random code generator below. Once created, it’s what you will share with the people you want to participate.

If you start a meeting with the name “Test”, “Demo” or “Family” for example, chances of having some random uninvited people joining are very, very high. How does one pick a good room name then? Our random meeting name generator below is a great start. It offers names that are easy to remember and read out loud on a phone call, and come from a set of over a trillion possible combinations. Picking out one of the auto-generated names is therefore quite safe.

COPY & SHARE YOUR UNIQUE CONFERENCE CODE

https://meet.jit.si/

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