This document contains guidelines for developing and establishing policies and procedures for deletion of personally identifiable information (PII) in organizations by specifying:
a harmonized terminology for PII deletion;
an approach for defining deletion rules in an efficient way;
a description of required documentation;
a broad definition of roles, responsibilities and processes.
This document is intended to be used by organizations where PII is stored or processed.
This document does not address:
specific legal provision, as given by national law or specified in contracts;
specific deletion rules for particular clusters of PII that are defined by PII controllers for processing PII;
deletion mechanisms;
reliability, security and suitability of deletion mechanisms;
specific techniques for de-identification of data.
