This document provides a description of privacy-enhancing data de-identification techniques, to be used to describe and design de-identification measures in accordance with the privacy principles in ISO/IEC 29100.


In particular, this document specifies terminology, a classification of de-identification techniques according to their characteristics, and their applicability for reducing the risk of re-identification.


This document is applicable to all types and sizes of organizations, including public and private companies, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations, that are PII controllers or PII processors acting on a controller's behalf, implementing data de-identification processes for privacy enhancing purposes.