Glossary
Personal data: anything relating to an identifiable person
Personal data relates to an identified or identifiable individual. Collecting it assumes a stated purpose, a defined retention period and rights available to the person concerned. The security applied stays proportionate to the risk involved.
What the notion covers
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual: name, number, address, technical identifier, image. Processing follows a few constant principles: a purpose stated before collection, strictly the quantity that purpose requires, a defined retention period, security proportionate to the risk, and rights the person concerned can exercise.
- A purpose stated before collection, and honoured afterwards
- Strictly the quantity required, kept for a defined period
- Rights the person can exercise, within an announced time
Four questions to ask before collecting
The Cybersecurity programme has candidates build the technical measures: encryption, access control, logging, deletion at term. The Business Law and OHADA Compliance programme handles the contractual side, with the clause that frames a processor and the trace that makes compliance demonstrable.
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1 — The purpose
Write down what the data serves, before collecting it: that sentence bounds everything else.
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2 — The quantity
Collect what the purpose requires, and stop there: every superfluous field becomes a burden to protect.
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3 — The period
Set a retention deadline and apply it automatically, with a record of the deletion.
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4 — The rights
Organise access, correction and deletion on request, within a time that is announced and met.
Programmes that handle the subject
2 catalogue programmes put “Personal data” to work: 300 credits and 3000 taught hours in total. The official rule holds throughout — one credit stands for 25 hours of work, 10 of them taught. Every line below is recomputed from the programme page: level, duration, credits, taught volume and fees in Guinean francs appear exactly as filed in the official catalogue.
| Programme | Level | Duration | Volume | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity programme — Bac+5 level | Master's degree | 2 years | 120 credits · 1200 taught hours | 7 500 000 GNF per year |
| Business Law and OHADA Compliance | Bachelor's degree | 3 years | 180 credits · 1800 taught hours | 5 200 000 GNF per year |
“Personal data” in practice
Is a technical identifier personal data?
As soon as it allows an individual to be traced, it falls under the same regime and the same obligations.
How do you demonstrate compliance?
Through a processing register, written purposes, applied retention periods and a record of requests handled.
Does the subject concern small organisations?
Yes, as soon as they handle customers, employees or job applications. The principles apply at the scale of the activity.
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