Talk:personal data
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All translations are literal, including Finnish (which is written as a single word). Don't think it is a good translation target.--Zcreator alt (talk) 16:28, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
- Delete, I think. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 10:34, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- Keep. 86.138.231.153 11:06, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- Delete per nom, not a particularly suitable translation target.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:54, 16 March 2018 (UTC) - Keep. It sounds like it is 'sum of parts' but it is really a legal term that has entered common usage at least in the UK public sector - it really means any information, truthful or otherwise, relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (usually a living person). When used correctly the term would exclude data about a person who was not identified or identifiable. It includes opinions which not everyone would consider to be data. I appreciate that this is quite a subtle distinction but I think it is worth making. John Cross (talk) 22:47, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- On WP, W:Personal data redirects to W:Personally identifiable information. The PII is there defined as "information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context". If "personal data" is used to mean the same thing, then it is not a sum of parts, IMHO. That would require replacing
{{translation only}}, currently in the entry, with an actual definition. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- The meaning of 'personal data' in Europe is strongly influenced by the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) and associated legislation (e.g. in the UK, the Data Protection Act 1998). It is comparable to PII in US privacy law. John Cross (talk) 12:15, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Keep. If you use Google translate to translate personal data to Dutch, you get a word-by-word translation: persoonlijke gegevens. That is perfectly clear and understandable Dutch, but it is not the term used in official laws and regulations governing the protection of personal data. So the presence of this entry as a translation hub is defensible. --Lambiam 18:22, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
- Keep. The situation in Danish is identical to the one described for Dutch. A word-by-word translation would be "personlige data". While comprehensible, that is not the term used. The correct translation is "persondata"; which is used when referring to GDPR and for person specific data concerning health, financial information, criminal record, religious affiliation and political observation. So a sum of parts translation doesn't work here. Valentinian (talk) 09:06, 1 July 2018 (UTC)