<h2>Delete a control from a processing activity</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="task" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Delete a control from a processing activity" /><meta name="abstract" content="Delete the controls that are no longer required in the processing activity." /><meta name="description" content="Delete the controls that are no longer required in the processing activity." /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../product/grc-privacy-management/concept/using-privacy-mgmt.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../product/grc-common/reference/r_WhatIsGRC.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../product/grc-privacy-management/concept/privacy-management.html" /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2023-08-03" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2025-01-30" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="delete-controls" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>Delete a control from a processing activity</title></head><body id="delete-controls"> <div class="breadcrumb"><a class="link" href="../../../product/grc-common/reference/r_WhatIsGRC.html" title="Respond to business risks in real time. Connect security and IT with an integrated risk program offering continuous monitoring, prioritization, and automation.">Governance, Risk, and Compliance</a> > <a class="link" href="../../../product/grc-privacy-management/concept/privacy-management.html" title="Use the Governance, Risk, and Compliance: Privacy Management application to help protect your customers, employees, and suppliers with integrated data privacy risk and compliance management solutions and privacy by design concepts.">Privacy Management</a> > </div> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Delete a control from a processing activity</h1> <div class="body taskbody"><p class="shortdesc">Delete the controls that are no longer required in the processing activity.</p> <div class="section prereq p"> <p class="p">Role required: sn_privacy.admin</p> </div> <div class="section context" id="delete-controls__context_bmp_c4p_lpb">You can delete controls if the control objectives associated with those controls have been erroneously added. If you want to add new controls, you may want to delete existing controls. <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> If a control is associated with any other entity or entity type, then you cannot delete the control. By deleting a control, you can only remove the association of that control with the processing activity.</div> </div> <ol class="ol steps"><li class="li step"> <span class="ph cmd">Navigate to <span class="ph menucascade"><span class="ph uicontrol">All</span> > <span class="ph uicontrol">Privacy Workspace</span> > <span class="ph uicontrol">Processing activities</span> > <span class="ph uicontrol">All processing activities</span></span>.</span> </li><li class="li step"> <span class="ph cmd">Select and open the processing activity from which you want to delete controls.</span> </li><li class="li step"> <span class="ph cmd">Click the Controls related list.</span> </li><li class="li step"> <span class="ph cmd">Select the controls that you want to delete.</span> </li><li class="li step"> <span class="ph cmd">Click <span class="ph uicontrol">Delete</span>.</span> </li></ol> <div class="section result" id="delete-controls__result_kkk_2hp_lpb">The selected controls are deleted from the processing activity.</div> </div> <div class="related-links"> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent Topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../../../product/grc-privacy-management/concept/using-privacy-mgmt.html" title="As a privacy analyst or a privacy manager, you can identify which business applications or processes store and use personal information.">Using Privacy Management</a></div> </div> </div></body></html></div>