digital privacy
Data protection rights
Digital privacy is control over one's personal information in electronic environments—what data is collected, who accesses it, and how it's used.
The term encompasses online activity, communications, financial records, and biometric data.
She adjusted her browser settings for better digital privacy.
Digital privacy concerns intensified with social media, data breaches, and surveillance technologies.
- anonymizationRemoving identifying information
- encryptionConverting data into code
- end-to-end encryptionUnreadable data between sender and recipient
- two-factor authenticationIdentity confirmation requiring two proofs
- access controlsRestrictions on entry rights
right to be forgotten · data protection · informed consent · cookie consent · tokenization · private browsing · personal data · targeted ads · surveillance · consent · GDPR · secure storage · opt-out · firewalls · cookies · corporate accountability · metadata · spyware
- computer skillstyping, keyboarding, copy paste, clicking, scrolling
- computingcomputer, computers, software, hardware, code
- digital societysocial networks, internet, internet culture, online communities, connectivity
- privacyprivate, seclusion, confidentiality, solitude, anonymity
- family privacysecrets, boundaries, diary, bedroom, passwords
- digital rightsdata protection, internet freedom, information access, net neutrality, right to know
digital privacydigital surveillance
Tracking via electronic means
mass surveillance · government surveillance · Big Brother · panopticon · spying
digital privacydata harvesting
data mining · behavioral tracking · targeted advertising · surveillance capitalism · data extraction