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Controller

The business that decides why personal data is used and how. Each End Customer is the controller of its employees' payroll data, because the payroll is its own. Only the controller reports a breach to the ICO or answers an employee's request. Agreement 7.1 · Chapter 5 · see Processor, Sub-processor

Explained in Chapter 5, Data Protection: Controller, Processor, Sub-Processor, of White Label SaaS.

Also explained in Data Protection.

How it comes up, in Chapter 5
Data protection law gives each business that handles the data a role. A controller decides why the data is used and how. A processor handles the data on a controller's behalf. The law fixes each role by what the business does with the data, and the Agreement records the result…
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