GLOSSARY
Recipient definition
What does Recipient mean?
The UK GDPR and EU GDPR include obligations to record and provide data subjects with details of the recipients or categories of recipients of their personal data in a number of situations. The GDPR regimes also refer to recipients in other contexts, including certain provisions concerning processing records, data transfers and enforcement.
Under the GDPR regimes, ‘recipient’ is defined as meaning:
‘…a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with [EU GDPR: EU or Member State/ UK GDPR: UK domestic] law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;’ (emphasis added)
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