BS EN ISO/IEC 27555:2025

Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection. Guidelines on personally identifiable information deletion. | Status: Current

1 Scope This document contains guidelines for developing and establishing policies and procedures for deletion of personally identifiable information (PII) in organizations by specifying:

• — a harmonized terminology for PIIdeletion;
• — an approach for defining deletion rules in an efficient way;
• — a description of required documentation;
• — a broad definition of roles, responsibilities and processes.

This document is intended to be used by organizations where PII is stored or processed. This document does not address:

• — specific legal provision, as given by national law or specified in contracts;
• — specific deletion rules for particular clusters of PII that are defined by PII controllers for processing PII;
• — deletion mechanisms;
• — reliability, security and suitability of deletion mechanisms;
• — specific techniques for de-identification of data.