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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

the largest data security breaches was revealed. It involved the background check databroker, National Public Data and exposed the personal information...

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 Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PDP Bill 2019) was a proposed legislation by the Parliament of India which was withdrawn.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

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

Commission for Personal Data Protection (NCPDP) is a regulatory body established by the Government of Pakistan under the Personal Data Protection Bill...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

exposure of personal information on government websites, and unauthorised use and access of Aadhaar data by private institutions. The detailed personal information...

export of personal data outside the EU. The four types of technical safeguards are access controls, flow controls, inference controls, and data encryption...

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

Corporations. Brian, Krebs. "National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords". Krebs On Security. "Personal Data of 3 Billion People Stolen in Hack, Suit...