Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Purpose Limitation
In practice, organizations must:
– Clearly define the purpose of collecting personal data and their intention
– Specify your purposes by complying with documentation obligations;
– Perform transparency obligations to communicate to individuals about your purposes for collecting personal data; and
– Ensure that if you plan to disclose or use personal data for any purpose that is different or additional to the originally specified purpose, the new use should be fair, lawful, and transparent.
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