DSP-12 Limitation of Purpose in Personal Data Processing
Processes, procedures and technical measures are defined, put in place and assessed so that personal data is processed lawfully and only for the purposes the data subject was told about.
Source: CSA CCM v4.1, DSP-12. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CSA CCM v4.1 in the compliance library.
Version 4.1 adds 11 controls (among them API security, log sanitisation and a service bill of materials) and renumbers several domains. CSA accepts v4.0.x during its transition; if your STAR assessment is still on v4.0.1, check the numbering against it.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Record of processing activities linking purposes to data · Document repository
- Review of new uses against declared purposes · Document repository
- Breach records involving misuse and remediation · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Privacy notices stating purposes · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Controls preventing secondary use · Document repository
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Analytics reuse of data beyond declared purposes
- Notices outdated
- No check before new processing starts
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetDSP-11 Personal Data Access, Reversal, Rectification and Deletion · DSP-13 Personal Data Sub-processing