Glossary

• GDPR: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information of individuals within the European Union (EU)

• JSON: JavaScript Object Notation, is an open standard format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.

• PII: Personal Identifiable Information is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.

• Pseudonymisation: is a data management and de-identification procedure by which sensitive data fields within a data record are replaced by one or more artificial identifiers, or pseudonyms.

• REST: Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating web services. Web Services that conform to the REST architectural style, or RESTful web services, provide interoperability between computer systems on the Internet.

• XML: Extensible Markup Language is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents.