data protection

English

Noun

data protection (usually uncountable, plural data protections)

  1. (often attributive) The act or process of protecting data from unauthorized use by ensuring security and privacy through consciously chosen and enforced rules and methods.
    Synonym: data privacy
    • 2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist‎[1]:
      The links were mostly to newspaper articles and public records, and Google refused to comply, but with the “right to be forgotten” enshrined as a key objective of the European Union’s 2011 data protection strategy, more and bigger cases are likely to follow.
    • 2017 July 12, Katie Mansfield, “Virgin Trains cleared of rumbling Jeremy Corbyn with traingate CCTV clip”, in Daily Express‎[2]:
      The train company did not breach data protection law for publishing the clip during the so-called traingate controversy.
    • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
      However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers[.]
  2. (often capitalized) The business function (team, department, squad, etc) that leads others in their performance of this act or process.
    This proposal has to be cleared by Legal, Human Resources, and Data Protection before it can proceed further.

Derived terms

  • DPO (“data protection officer”)
  • GDPR (“General Data Protection Regulation”)

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