ISO/IEC 15944-8:20 12的开发是为了支持在任何类型的基于信息和通信技术（ICT）的商业交易中识别和提供个人信息隐私保护的通用国际要求的建模，在这些交易中，个人扮演买方的角色。它为用户和设计者提供了一种方法和工具来满足管辖领域的要求。ISO/IEC 15944-8:20 12采用了ISO/IEC 14662中开发的“业务运营视图”（BOV）方面，特别是ISO/IEC 15944-1和ISO/IEC 15944-5以及许多其他国际参考文献。ISO/IEC 15944将管辖领域的要求建模为对数据的创建、使用、交换和信息生命周期管理的外部约束。ISO/IEC 15944-8:20 12阐述了控制个人信息（PI）使用的司法管辖区的公共政策要求的更广泛背景。这些包括消费者保护、隐私保护、个人无障碍等法规。ISO/IEC 15944-8:20 12确定并扩展了11项与国际、地区和联合国成员国要求的隐私保护相关的通用、原始的国际原则。它根据商业交易和承诺交换的“协作空间”对它们进行建模，该交易和承诺交换涉及扮演“买方”角色的个人。它提供了管理该个人标识符的建立、管理和使用的原则和规则，包括使用法律认可的姓名（LRN）、公认的个人身份（rii）以及非识别，如使用个人信息的匿名化和假名化。ISO/IEC 15944-8:20 12还规定了管理信息生命周期管理（ILCM）的原则，以及获得知情同意收集的规则和相关编码域，指定了状态更改、记录保留、记录删除和支持隐私保护要求的相关事项。

ISO/IEC 15944-8:2012 has been developed to support modelling generic international requirements for identifying and providing privacy protection of personal information throughout any kind of information and communications technology (ICT) based business transaction where the individual has the role of a buyer. It provides users and designers with a methodology and tools addressing requirements imposed by jurisdictional domains.

ISO/IEC 15944-8:2012 takes the "business operational view" (BOV) aspects developed in ISO/IEC 14662, together with, in particular, ISO/IEC 15944-1 and ISO/IEC 15944-5 as well as many other international references.

ISO/IEC 15944 models the requirements of jurisdictional domains as external constraints upon the creation, use, interchange, and information life-cycle management of data. ISO/IEC 15944-8:2012 addresses the wider context of the public policy requirements of jurisdictional domains controlling the use of personal information (PI). These include regulations for consumer protection, privacy protection, individual accessibility, etc.

ISO/IEC 15944-8:2012 identifies and expands upon eleven generic, primitive, international principles that have been associated with privacy protection by international, regional, and UN member states' requirements. It models them with respect to the "collaboration space" of a business transaction and commitment exchange involving an individual acting in the role of a "buyer". It provides principles and rules governing the establishment, management and use of identifiers of that individual, including the use of legally recognized names (LRNs), recognized individual identity (rii), and methods of non-identification such as the use of anonymization and pseudonymization of personal information.

ISO/IEC 15944-8:2012 also sets out principles governing information life-cycle management (ILCM) as well as the rules and associated coded domains for obtaining informed consent for collection, specifying state changes, records retention, record deletion and related matters in support of privacy protection requirements.