data privacy
Personal data safeguarding
Data privacy is the right or ability to control how personal information is collected, stored, and shared.
The term encompasses both legal frameworks and practical measures: The app's data privacy settings let you opt out of tracking.
Concerns about data privacy have grown alongside digital surveillance, targeted advertising, and large-scale data breaches.
Also called information privacy.
- CCPACalifornia consumer data protection law
- GDPREU data protection law
- right to be forgottenLegal power to delete records
- HIPAAMedical privacy statute
- VPNsEncrypted network connections
opt-out · opt in · personal information · cybersecurity · encryption · FISA · terms of service · cookie consent · COPPA · FERPA · digital footprint · passwords · algorithmic bias · firewall · exposed · hackers · breach · identity
- secrecysecrecy, secret, secrets, confidential, classified
- public policypolicy making, policy reform, economic policy, policy recommendations, education policy
- research ethicsresearch ethics, bioethics, ethics board, ethics training, fabrication
- information policyFOIA, freedom of information, government transparency, public records, public access
- computingcomputer, computers, software, hardware, code
- digital technologyinternet, software, streaming, computers, CGI
data privacypublic exposure
State of being visible to all
data breach · doxxing · public disclosure · privacy violation · surveillance capitalism
data privacymass surveillance
Widespread population observation programs
Big Brother · spying · panopticon · behavioral tracking · surveillance
data privacyfull disclosure
Withholding no information
open government · public accountability · freedom of information · mandatory reporting · corporate transparency