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Is someone’s voice personal identifiable information under GDPR? If someone is to do a voice over for content of some training for a business, would a consent form be needed?

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Published on: 07 August 2019
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Is someone’s voice personal identifiable information under GDPR?

A voice recording is likely, in almost all circumstances, to constitute ‘Personal data’, under the definition at Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), because it is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. It is possible that a recording might exist from which it is impossible to identify the person recorded, but in most cases one should proceed on the presumption that a recording is ‘personal

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What does consent mean?

Consent is defined as any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which they, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signify agreement to the processing of personal data.

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