data controller

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data controller (plural data controllers)

  1. (UK, law) A nominated person who determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data is to be processed. (under the Data Protection Act)
  2. (dated, computing) A clerk who scheduled batch jobs on a mainframe computer, and who distributed printed output