AI Summary of Article 5 Principles relating to processing of personal data
Personal data processing must adhere to key principles, including lawfulness, fairness, and transparency, ensuring that data subjects are informed. Data must be collected for legitimate purposes and not further processed in ways that conflict with these initial aims, except under specific conditions for research or statistical use.
Additionally, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, and integrity are essential. Personal data should be adequate and relevant, kept up to date, and not retained longer than necessary. The controller bears responsibility to demonstrate compliance with these principles, ensuring strong safeguards to protect individual rights.
Article 5 Principles relating to processing of personal data
1. Personal data shall be:
(a) processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject ('lawfulness, fairness and transparency');
(b) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall, in accordance with Article 89(1), not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes ('purpose limitation');
(c) adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed ('data minimisation');
(d) accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay ('accuracy');