sensitive data
Private digital assets
Sensitive data is information that requires protection due to the harm its exposure could cause.
This includes personal identifiers like Social Security numbers, financial records, medical histories, passwords, and trade secrets.
The term appears constantly in privacy policies and data breach notifications: The hack exposed sensitive data belonging to millions of customers.
What qualifies as sensitive depends on context—an email address may be routine in one database, sensitive in another.
- GDPREU data protection law
- right to be forgottenLegal power to delete records
- opt inChoose to participate
- biometricsBody-based identity verification
- confidentialityQuality of protecting secrets
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- Secrecy TermsNDA, trade secret, classified, confidential, secrecy
- Datadatasets, databank, microdata, measurements, statistics
- privacyprivacy, private, seclusion, confidentiality, solitude
- secretssecrecy, secret, trade secret, secrets, confidential
- data privacyGDPR, de-identification, consent, privacy policy, k-anonymity
- privacy policiesconsent forms, opt-out, opt-in, cookies, user consent
sensitive datapublic information
Accessible-to-all data
public records · open data · common knowledge · general knowledge
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