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.
PUBLISHED
ISO/IEC 27555:2021
PROJECT
ISO/IEC DIS 27555
40.00
DIS registered
Mar 26, 2026
Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Guidelines on personally identifiable information deletion
30.99 CD approved for registration as DIS