Defined in the law · GDPR Art. 4(7)
Controller
In plain English
The person, company, authority or other body that decides, alone or with others, why and how personal data are processed.
The definition in the law
‘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
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