Data protection by design and by default

54.(1) The data controller shall both at the time of the determination of the means for processing and at the time of the processing itself, implement appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to implement the principles set out in section 4 in an effective manner and to integrate the necessary safeguards into the processing in order to meet the requirements of this Act and protect the rights of data subjects, taking into consideration the state of the art, the cost of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risks of varying likelihood and severity for rights and freedoms of individuals posed by the processing.

(2) The data controller shall implement the appropriate technical and organisational measures for ensuring that, by default, only personal data which are necessary for each specific purpose of the processing is processed.

(3) Subsection (2) applies to the amount of personal data collected, the extent of processing of the personal data, the period of storage of the personal data and the accessibility to the personal data.

(4) The technical and organisational measures referred to in subsection (1) shall ensure that personal data is not, by default, made accessible without the individual's intervention to an indefinite number of individuals.