information privacy
Sign in to saveAlso known as data privacy, data protection, personal data protection, protection of personal data
appropriate collection, use and dissemination of personal data in products and services, as well as their protection and related legal and political issues
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic discipline
- Part of
- data processing
Show 5 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Information privacy
- Commons category
- Information privacy
- facet of
- personal data
- P13411
- Bibliotheca universalis
- characteristic of
- personal data
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~28 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Information privacy, also known as data privacy or data protection, is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them.
Various types of personal information often come under privacy concerns. Privacy concerns exist wherever personally identifiable information or other sensitive information is collected, stored, used, and finally destroyed or deleted – in digital form or otherwise. Improper or non-existent disclosure control can be the root cause for privacy issues. Informed consent mechanisms including privacy policies and dynamic consent are important in communicating to data subjects the different uses of their personally identifiable information.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “information privacy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.