ISO/IEC 27555:2021

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.