Usage Note
Donnée is the past participle of donner used as a noun — literally 'something given'. In practice it almost always appears in the plural données (data), as in traitement des données (data processing) or protection des données (data protection, GDPR). In mathematics or logic, les données du problème means the givens or known facts of a problem.
Examples
"Les données personnelles sont protégées."
Natural Translation
Personal data is protected.
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