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Controller

nounid 4797·updated May 18, 2026
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‘Controller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Role100%manual revieweval-seeds-v0.3-2026-05-14

Sensitivity

90%rule-basedr:sens.regulated.framework.v1

Information Class

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
accountantcomptrollercontroldata controllerpersonal dataprocessorrestrainer
plural
Controllers
possessive
Controller's
pluralpossessive
Controllers'

Framework definitions

General Data Protection RegulationEU1 senseview framework →
§1
‘Controller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;
Wordset Dictionary3 sensesview framework →
§1
a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
§2
someone who maintains and audits business accounts
§3
a person who directs and restrains

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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