Controller
nounid
4797·updated May 18, 2026verified
An entity that has taken possession and controls access to a data subject's PI.
polysemous
Attested in
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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
- §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;
- §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
- §1 · glossary
- An entity that has taken possession and controls access to a data subject's PI.Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
- §1 · legacy_primary
- ‘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;DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
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Incoming relationships
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