Personal data, also known as personal information or personally identifiable information (PII), is any information related to an identifiable person....

digital personal data in a manner that recognises both the right of individuals to protect their personal data and the need to process such personal data for...

Non-Personal Data (NPD) is electronic data that does not contain any information that can be used to identify a natural person. Thus, it can either be...

the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA. The GDPR's goals are to enhance individuals' control and rights over their personal information and...

A personal data service (PDS) gives the user a central point of control for their personal information (e.g. interests, contact information, affiliations...

General Personal Data Protection Law (Portuguese: Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais, or LGPD; Lei 13709/2018), is a statutory law on data protection...

A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. Following a boom in the 1990's...

The Personal Data Protection Act 2012 ("PDPA") sets out the law on data protection in Singapore. The PDPA regulates the processing of personal data in...

which regulated the processing of personal data within the European Union (EU) and the free movement of such data. The Data Protection Directive was an important...

stolen the user data of Ashley Madison, a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The hacker(s) copied personal information about...

A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". Attackers have a variety of motives...

A personal data manager (PDM) is a portable hardware tool enabling secure storage and easy access to user data. It can also be an application located on...

regulate access to personal data as privacy protection. The European Union states that: "The right of access occupies a central role in EU data protection law's...

The Woodworth Personal Data Sheet, sometimes known as the Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory, was a personality test, commonly cited as the first personality...

A data broker is an individual or company that specializes in collecting personal data (such as income, ethnicity, political beliefs, or geolocation data)...

Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) is a Hong Kong statutory body enforcing the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. The Privacy Commissioner...

the concept of data lakes. For example, Personal DataLake at Cardiff University is a new type of data lake which aims at managing big data of individual...

breach, and were working with law enforcement to identify the hacker. "Personal Data of 3 Billion People Stolen in Hack, Suit Says (1)". Bloomberg Law. August...

sophisticated tools such as grep. Data portability applies to personal data. It involves access to personal data without implying data ownership per se. At the...

The Personal Data Protection Authority (Indonesian: Lembaga Pelindungan Data Pribadi) is a future executive agency formed by the Indonesian government...

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PDP Bill 2019) was a proposed legislation by the Parliament of India which was withdrawn. The bill covers mechanisms...

In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected without their consent by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica...

Data Protection Board of India is an adjudicating body which is being set up by the Government of India under section 18 of the Digital Personal Data...

Westin argued that personal data was becoming too accessible and that a person should have complete jurisdiction over their data, laying the foundation...

the clients whose data they had obtained, demanding that they pay ransoms in order to avoid publication of their sensitive personal data. These ransom demands...

Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9 of 2022 (abbreviated PDPA) is a comprehensive data protection law enacted to regulate the processing of personal data...

The Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29) (DPA) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom designed to protect personal data stored on computers or in...

(2015-03-30). "Personal details of world leaders accidentally revealed by G20 organisers". The Guardian. "Australian National University suffers massive data breach...

issues surrounding them. It is also known as data privacy or data protection. Various types of personal information often come under privacy concerns...

the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data aka Convention 108 is a 1981 Council of Europe treaty that protects...