Standard or regulation
Art. 13 GDPR: Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject
gdpr-info.eu (text of Regulation (EU) 2016/679), 2016
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- What it is
- The text of Article 13 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, which lists what a controller must tell a person at the time their personal data are collected, including how long the data will be stored.
- How much weight it carries
- Reproduces the regulation's own wording. It is a mirror, not the Official Journal, so check the EUR-Lex text for legal purposes.
Facts taken from this source
- Under Article 13(2)(a) of the GDPR, a controller must tell the person, when the personal data are obtained, how long the data will be stored, or the criteria used to set that period if a fixed period is not possible.
“the period for which the personal data will be stored, or if that is not possible, the criteria used to determine that period” (Article 13(2)(a))