What does personal data mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n According to Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR, personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (the \"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, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. The term is to be understood very broadly, so that only anonymous and purely statistical, company or machine data should not be covered.<\/p>\n Personal data plays an important role in everyday business life, for example when it comes to the protection and legally compliant processing of personal data.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR, personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (the \"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, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. The term is to be understood very broadly, so that only anonymous and purely statistical, company or machine data should not be covered.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41280","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nPractical example<\/h2>\n