How is the term "data owner" best characterized?
"Data owner" is not a fixed, universally agreed-upon legal or technical term (unlike GDPR's defined terms "controller" and "processor"). Depending on the situation, a data owner might be the entity that collected the data, the entity that aggregated it, a business unit accountable for it, or another stakeholder entirely — its meaning is determined by the specific organizational, contractual, or regulatory context in which it is used, rather than by one fixed definition.
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