“Identification, referring both to the process of identifying someone and the fact of being identified, is one of the boundary concepts of data protection law. It separates the data that is personal, ie relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, from non-personal, and thus triggers the applicability of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR). Yet, despite the high stakes attached to the meaning of this concept, relatively little attention is paid both in law and legal scholarship to what identification is. Therefore the chief issue tackled here is the meaning of identification under the GDPR …” (more)
Nadezhda Purtova, ‘From knowing by name to targeting: the meaning of identification under the GDPR’, International Data Privacy Law, https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipac013. Published 21 June.
First posted 2022-06-25 16:45:52
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