What is Personal Data?
FROM 15 November 2021 r. The provisions of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated 07.05.2021 No. 99-Z “On the protection of personal data”, according to which Personal data means any information, relating to an identified individual or individual, which can be identified.

For privately owned organizations, the main questions are:: Do you need to comply with and apply the provisions of the Law in your activities?, if necessary, what to do about it? What documents are needed for this?? And what will happen, if necessary, and not do?

For ordinary citizens - consumers of goods and services, persons, working for the employer: and how my personal data will be used, to whom will they be available and will they not end up in unreliable sources??

Executive government bodies have the same questions, only through the prism of monitoring compliance with legislation in the field of personal data processing.

What types of personal data are there??

General personal data

The legislation on personal data includes basic personal data.: FULL NAME, registration address, place of work, phone numbers, e-mail.

Special personal data

Information about a person's identity: marital status, health status, race and nationality, political, religious views, criminal record information.

Special categories of personal data differ from general topics, which are usually kept private. They can only be learned from the person in person., or obtain from official sources through requests (REGISTER, medical institution, law enforcement agencies, etc.).

Biometric personal data

These are physiological or biological characteristics of a person, which are used to establish his identity. These may include photographs, fingerprints, blood group, genetic information.

Other personal data

This category includes all, that cannot be classified as publicly available, special or biometric data: belonging to a particular social group, for example, club membership, or corporate data, eg, salary, holiday periods, experience and so on.