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Records and data map Required

Mark special categories and children's data

Flag every store and column that holds special categories of data, criminal records or children's data, because stricter rules apply to them.

How to do it

GDPR Article 9 lists the special categories. They are health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, union membership, genetic and biometric data, sex life and sexual orientation. Article 10 covers criminal records. Article 8 sets the age for a child's own consent between 13 and 16, by country. Add a special or children flag in the data map. Flagged stores need a DPIA screening and, where it fits, field encryption.

How to check

A script searches the schema for column names such as health, diagnosis, religion, ethnicity, biometric and date_of_birth. It fails when a match sits in a store without the matching flag.

For agents: if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in Based on the Agent Wranglers compliance playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/records-and-data-map/special-category-flags.