Darren Abernethy, Senior Counsel TrustArcRavi Pather, VP Sales CryptoNumerics
The GDPR is not intended to be a compliance overhead for controllers and processors. It is intended to bring higher and consistent standards and processes for the secure treatment of personal data. It’s fundamentally intended to protect the privacy rights of individuals. This cannot be more true than in emerging data science, analytics, AI and ML environments where due to the nature of vast amounts of data sources there is higher risk of identifying the personal and sensitive information of an individual.
The GDPR requires that personal data be collected for “specified, explicit and legitimate purposes,” and also that a data controller must define a separate legal basis for each and every purpose for which, e.g., customer data is used. If a bank customer took out a bank loan, then the bank can only use the collected account data and transactional data for managing and processing that customer for the purpose of fulfilling its obligations for offering a bank loan. This is colloquially referred to as the “primary purpose” for which the data is collected. If the bank now wanted to re-use this data for any other purpose incompatible with or beyond the scope of the primary purpose, then this is referred to as a “secondary purpose” and will require a separate legal basis for each and every such secondary purpose.
For the avoidance of any doubt, if the bank wanted to use that customer’s data for profiling in a data science environment, then under GDPR the bank is required to document a legal basis for each and every separate purpose for which it stores and processes this customer’s data. So, for example, a ‘cross sell and up sell’ is one purpose, ..
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