PDPF Exam Dumps : Privacy and Data Protection Foundation

As stated in the statement, Article 9 concerns the treatment of special categories of personal data, also called sensitive data.

This is a type of question that is often asked by EXIN. Important to remember which types of data are categorized as sensitive.

Article 9: Processing of special categories of personal data

1. Processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.

Examples of sensitive data: Race, skin color, family tree, political party, political party affiliation, religious beliefs, illness, test results, digital, facial recognition and sexual preference. These are just a few examples.

In its Article 5, which deals with the Principles relating to the processing of personal data, paragraph 1, the GDPR describes:

1. Personal data shall be:

adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed

(«data minimisation»);

Article 5 mentions all GDPR principles for processing personal data.

The data minimization principle refers to the purpose of the law that only the data that is required for processing should be collected.

This is also favorable to businesses. The less data is collected, the less likely violations are to occur and consequently the impacts also decrease.