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term: "Personal data"
category: "Consent and data rights"
url: https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/personal-data
source: AgenticOpenFinance glossary
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# Personal data

> Any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person.

Under the GDPR, personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, called the data subject. A person is identifiable if they can be identified directly or indirectly, for example by a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or factors specific to them. Account numbers, transaction histories and the prompts a customer types into an agent are usually personal data, so every agent that touches them falls within data protection law.

Related terms: [Consent](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/consent.md), [Lawful basis](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/lawful-basis.md), [Data minimisation](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/data-minimisation.md), [Purpose limitation](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/purpose-limitation.md)