Recital 28

1 The application of pseudonymisation to personal data can reduce the risks to the data subjects concerned and help controllers and processors to meet their data-protection obligations. 2 The explicit introduction of ‘pseudonymisation’ in this Regulation is not intended to preclude any other measures of data protection.


This recital of the General Data Protection Regulation clarifies article 4 GDPR (Definitions).*

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