PDPF Exam Dumps : Privacy and Data Protection Foundation

Confidentiality violation. Incorrect. GDPR uses the term personal data breach. Not every data breach is a confidentiality violation.

Personal data breach. Correct. This is the definition of a personal data breach. (Literature: A, Chapter 5; GDPR Article 4(12))

Security breach. Incorrect. GDPR uses the term personal data breach. Not every security breach is a data breach. Not every data breach is a personal data breach.

Security incident. Incorrect. GDPR uses the term personal data breach. Not every security incident is a data breach.

In its Article 5, which deals with the Principles relating to the processing of personal data, paragraph 1, the GDPR describes:

1. Personal data shall be:

adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed

(«data minimisation»);

Article 5 mentions all GDPR principles for processing personal data.

The data minimization principle refers to the purpose of the law that only the data that is required for processing should be collected.

This is also favorable to businesses. The less data is collected, the less likely violations are to occur and consequently the impacts also decrease.