Accountability principle
The GDPR requirement, set out in Article 5(2), that a data controller must be able to demonstrate compliance with the regulation's data protection principles, not merely comply with them silently; an undocumented shadow file holding personal data is out of compliance with this duty for as long as it exists unofficially, whether or not the organization was aware of it.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 5 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The GDPR requirement, set out in Article 5(2), that a data controller must be able to demonstrate compliance with the regulation's data protection principles, not merely comply with them silently; an undocumented shadow file holding personal data is out of compliance with this duty for as long as it exists unofficially, whether or not the organization was aware of it.
The data-protection requirement (in the EU GDPR and echoed in laws such as Brazil's LGPD and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act) that an organization be able to demonstrate, not merely claim, that its processing of personal data is lawful; audit trails are a primary way to meet it.
The rule that an organisation must not only comply with data-protection duties but be able to demonstrate compliance with evidence (GDPR Article 5(2) and equivalents). It is why an undocumented destruction does not count as a completed governance decision.
The GDPR requirement (Article 5(2)) that an organization not only comply with data-protection rules but be able to demonstrate compliance. Provenance you have guessed at cannot be demonstrated; an honest "unknown" can, because it shows you looked, found a gap, and are addressing it.
The rule in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, Regulation (EU) 2016/679), Article 5(2), that a controller must not only comply with the data-protection principles but be able to demonstrate compliance. The legal reason the burden of proof sits on the operator.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- The spreadsheet amnesty: ending shadow IT without ending careers · The Humans of Data, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- The retention decision: what you must keep, what you must destroy, and proving both · Data Reality, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The provenance file: your data map an auditor could follow · Data Reality, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The agent audit trail: logging actions so you can reconstruct any decision it made · Agents Under Command, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Evidence is designed, not gathered: building systems whose proof exists before anyone asks · Evidence Engineering, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.