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General Data Protection Regulation

Updated on March 15, 2022

Implementing client-based access control (CBAC) helps you satisfy the data privacy requirements of the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar regulations. Personal data is associated with an actual person, not with an abstract entity such as a business.

If your application stores data that could be used to identify a person and you are subject to GDPR or similar regulations, use client-based access control to track and process requests to view, change, remove, and restrict the use of personal data, and to show auditors that you have done so.

Note: For more information about GDPR, see the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) website.

Terminology

This article and related articles use the following terminology:

Pega application
An application that is built on Pega Platform and contains personally identifiable data
Client
A person who is a customer of yours and whose personal data you manage. (In GDPR, this person is known as the “data subject.”)
Repository
A Pega or non-Pega application that stores personally identifiable data, within which client requests must be enforced. This type of repository is different from the repositories that are used in the CI/CD pipeline.

Types of requests

Rectify and erase requests are one-time operations. They do not prevent data from being changed or added again in the future. Pega Platform can be configured to automatically support the following types of personal data requests:

Personal data request typesConfiguration behavior
Request to access Find all the personal data for a client and return the values to the client.
Request to rectifyCorrect personal data for a client for properties that you support changing.
Request to eraseDelete personal data for a client for properties that you support deleting.
Request to restrict usageProhibit particular functions from accessing data for a specific client. For example, a client might consent to use your banking system but not to receive marketing communications.
  • Personal data restrictions for GDPR

    The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict requirements for protecting personal data. When you develop Pega applications, you can restrict personal information from certain functions. You can restrict the access to personal information from internal and external users by using access groups.

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