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Data Protection
Safeguards to ensure fair and responsible personal data collection, processing, and storage.
Do Not Track (DNT)
A web browser setting that signals a user's preference not to be tracked across websites.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
A comprehensive privacy law in the EU that gives individuals control over their personal data.
Defamation
A false statement that injures someone's reputation; includes slander (spoken) and libel (written).
Consent
Permission given by an individual for their data to be collected or processed.
False Light Privacy
Creating a misleading impression of an individual in a way that would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.
Information Privacy
The aspect of privacy concerned with the handling, protection, and dissemination of personal information.
Surveillance Law
Regulations related to government or private monitoring of individuals' activities, often for security purposes.
Expectation of Privacy
The legal test determining whether a person's privacy may be legally protected from intrusion.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
U.S. legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information.
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
The UK's independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest.
Right to be Forgotten
The right allowing individuals to have their personal information removed from internet searches or databases under certain conditions.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
A state statute enhancing privacy rights and consumer protection for residents of California, USA.
Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs)
A set of guidelines that govern the collection, use, and dissemination of personal information.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
A U.S. law that restricts the tracking and targeting of users under the age of 13 online.
Biometric Privacy
Protects individuals' biometric data such as fingerprints, facial recognition, and voiceprints.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
U.S. federal law protecting wire, oral, and electronic communications while those communications are being made, in transit, and when they are stored.
Privacy by Design
A concept that promotes privacy and data protection compliance from the start.
Journalist's Privilege
The right of journalists to withhold the identities of their sources in legal proceedings.
Public Disclosure of Private Facts
Releasing truthful information that is not of public concern and would offend a reasonable person.
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