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Jigneshbharati Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Concept

At the heart of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is the concept of ‘personal data’.

https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/the-gdpr-do-you-know-the-difference-between-personal-data-and-sensitive-data

The words, concept and idea always give me trouble. What does the concept mean in "concept of personal data"?

  

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Probably the first definition of the word in most dictionaries. com/dictionary/concept ) An abstract idea; a general notion. com/en/definition/concept ) A general idea or understanding of something.

  • Probably the first definition of the word in most dictionaries.
  • com/dictionary/concept ) An abstract idea; a general notion.
  • com/en/definition/concept ) A general idea or understanding of something.
  • q=concept ) etc.
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Probably the first definition of the word in most dictionaries. For example:

something conceived in the mind : THOUGHT, NOTION (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concept)

An abstract idea; a general notion. (

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'idea' and 'concept' can be very similar.

In your sentence, though, "the concept of 'personal data'" seems to mean something like "the definition of 'personal data". It's how we think about 'personal data'. What kind of data should be considered 'personal', for example? Answers to this question and others are going to be discussed after a sentence like At the heart of the GDPR (Gen

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