What Is The "Controller"and What Is The "Processor" Under The GDPR

Introduction

The GDPR imposes to the Controllers new data protection obligations. Further, in a change from previous legislation, processors have new statutory obligations in their own right under the new Regulation.

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Controller

According to Article 4 of the GDPR controller means:

"the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data"

Simply stated , controllers are the main decision makers, the ones who exercise overall control over the purposes and means of the processing of the personal data, regardless of whether they directly collect the data from the data subjects.