Understanding Personal Data

The Art of Privacy is a video series from OneTrust DataGuidance exploring key privacy and data protection concepts with commentary from industry-leading voices. In this episode, Andreea Lisievici, Head of Data Protection Compliance at Volvo Car Corporation, explains the fundamentals of understanding personal data. 

Andreea outlines the definition of personal data, the different types of personal data, and special categories of data. Andreea also discussed the difficulties with identifiability and explains that data becomes personal due to the context or collection in which it is placed and whether it is unique and can single out a person.

Andreea also details the different types of information that can be considered personal data including:

• Name
• Date of birth
• Address
• Email address
• Physical characteristics
• Location data
• Health information

Discover more videos in The Art of Privacy series here.