ISO/IEC 27555:2021

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.