# Article 4 — Technological protection measures **Commission Regulation (EU) No 611/2013 · binding · OJ L 173, 26.6.2013 · dated 24 Jun 2013 [in force]** *In force · Commission Regulation (EU) No 611/2013, OJ L 173, 26.6.2013 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 26 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/611/oj/eng)* 1. In derogation from Article 3(1), notification of a personal data breach to a subscriber or individual concerned shall not be required if the provider has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the competent national authority that it has implemented appropriate technological protection measures, and that those measures were applied to the data concerned by the security breach. Such technological protection measures shall render the data unintelligible to any person who is not authorised to access it. 2. Data shall be considered unintelligible if: **(a)** it has been securely encrypted with a standardised algorithm, the key used to decrypt the data has not been compromised in any security breach, and the key used to decrypt the data has been generated so that it cannot be ascertained by available technological means by any person who is not authorised to access the key; or **(b)** it has been replaced by its hashed value calculated with a standardised cryptographic keyed hash function, the key used to hash the data has not been compromised in any security breach, and the key used to hash the data has been generated in a way that it cannot be ascertained by available technological means by any person who is not authorised to access the key. 3. The Commission may, after having consulted the competent national authorities via the Article 29 Working Party, the European Network and Information Security Agency and the European Data Protection Supervisor, publish an indicative list of appropriate technological protection measures, referred to in paragraph 1, according to current practices.