Welcome! Issues of personal data collection, digital privacy, and online security affect everyone! This guide provides basic information on data privacy and what you can do to help protect yourself from unwanted or unauthorized use of your personal information as you navigate the digital world with your computer or smart phone.
You can also access the OC Libraries' Patron Data Privacy Policy to find out more about how the OC Libraries collect, use, store, and purge your data.
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A nebulous philosophical, legal, social and technological concept which means different things to different observers. In an influential 1890 Harvard Law Review article, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, who later became a Supreme Court Justice, famously defined privacy as “a right to be let alone.” Common areas of privacy that are of particular interest with regard to data protection and privacy laws include information privacy, bodily privacy, territorial privacy, and communications privacy.
Four main areas of privacy are of particular interest with regard to data protection and privacy laws and practices: information privacy, bodily privacy, territorial privacy, and communications privacy.
The predominant term for Personal Information in the European Union, defined broadly in the General Data Protection Regulation as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Associated term(s): Personal Information; Personally Identifying Information; Personally Identifiable Information
A term used to describe the large data sets which exponential growth in the amount and availability of data have allowed organizations to collect. Big data has been articulated as “the three V’s: volume (the amount of data), velocity (the speed at which data may now be collected and analyzed), and variety (the format, structured or unstructured, and type of data, e.g. transactional or behavioral).
Associated term(s): Metadata
* The above definitions were created and published by the International Association of Privacy Professionals' Glossary of Privacy Terms.
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