Catalog of criteria

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) also requires data-processing actors in the context of buildings and neighborhoods to comply with data protection requirements (such as the necessity of a legal basis, transparency obligations, or data minimization). This criteria catalog guides you step by step through the GDPR requirements if you wish to process data for one of the following purpose categories.

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What is it about?

Due to the close connection between buildings and their users, digitalization processes often go hand in hand with the processing of personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets strict requirements for the processing of personal data, which those responsible for processing must comply with. These include, in particular, transparency and accountability obligations, as well as the fundamental requirement of a legal basis.

How does it work?

The following criteria catalog includes all obligations from the GDPR in the form of “criteria” and “requirements”, which are specified for each purpose category. The catalog divides the GDPR requirements into 14 “topics” and can be specifically searched using a dropdown system and a search field.

On the one hand, it serves to make data protection law and the underlying goals and values understandable to the readers.
On the other hand, the “requirements” can be understood as a checklist that those responsible should follow before processing personal data.
The requirements from this criteria catalog will be transferred into a certification program by the end of the project. In the future, those responsible should be able to obtain an EU data protection seal in accordance with Article 42 of the GDPR.

Note

The criteria catalog is currently being continuously updated and revised. All recommendations are typified examples that must be considered and implemented in light of the specific use case.

For what purpose do you want to process data?

Betrieb und Betriebsoptimierung

This catalog of criteria concerns data processing in the context of operations or operational optimization in buildings and districts, such as:

(Partially) automated control of building air conditioning (e.g. ventilation, heating systems)
(Partially) automated control of other technical systems
Model-based control of technical systems
Improvement of models
Monitoring of technical systems
Calculation of heating/cooling requirements (at building or district level)
Calculation of heating/cooling requirements (at building or district level)
Calculation of electrical energy requirements (at residential unit, building or district level)
Determination of energy saving potential
Recommendation for action to building operators to save energy
Collection of building information in digital twin; BIM

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