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data protection en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (attributive, often, uncountable, usually) The act or process of protecting data from unauthorized use by ensuring security and privacy through consciously chosen and enforced rules and methods.
   • 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. 2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist:
   • However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers[.] 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:
   • The train company did not breach data protection law for publishing the clip during the so-called traingate controversy. 2017 July 12, Katie Mansfield, “Virgin Trains cleared of rumbling Jeremy Corbyn with traingate CCTV clip”, in Daily Express:
2. (capitalized, often, uncountable, usually) 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.

Forms

Deriveds

GDPR · DPIA · DPPO · DPO · CCPA

Relateds

cybersecurity · privacy policy

Synonyms

data privacy

Translations (5)

fr protection des données (Translations) · es protección de datos (Translations) · hu adatvédelem (Translations) · sv dataskydd (Translations) · ca protecció de dades (Translations)

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