Jake’s team has begun handling new data related to customers, including their personally identifiable information. Jake takes on a new role that has responsibilities including classi- fying each data element gathered about customers. What is Jake’s role in the data handling process?

Data owners classify, protect, oversee the use of, and ensure the quality of data. Control- lers are responsible for the procedures and purposes of data use, often described as the why and how. Custodians are the staff and teams who handle data, and processors work with data on behalf of a controller.