Data protection
Data Protection
Data Protection (pronunciation: /ˈdeɪtə prəˈtɛkʃən/) is a term that refers to the practices, safeguards, and binding rules put in place to protect your personal information.
Etymology
The term "Data Protection" is derived from the English words "data", meaning facts and statistics collected for reference or analysis, and "protection", meaning to keep safe from harm or injury.
Definition
Data Protection is the process of safeguarding important information from corruption, compromise or loss. The importance of data protection increases as the amount of data created and stored continues to grow at unprecedented rates.
Importance
Data protection is crucial for several reasons. It ensures the privacy of individuals, maintains the integrity of data, and protects it from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction.
Related Terms
- Data Privacy: This refers to the aspect of data protection that deals with the proper handling of data – consent, notice, and regulatory obligations.
- Data Security: This is the practice of protecting digital data from unauthorized access, corruption, or theft throughout its lifecycle.
- Data Breach: This is an incident where information is stolen or taken from a system without the knowledge or authorization of the system's owner.
- Data Encryption: This is the method of converting electronic data into another form, called ciphertext, which cannot be easily understood by anyone except authorized parties.
- Data Backup: This is the process of copying files or databases so that they will be preserved in case of equipment failure or other catastrophe.
- Data Recovery: This is the process of restoring data that has been lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted or made inaccessible.
- Data Retention: This is the policies that govern data preservation for meeting legal and compliance requirements.
- Data Erasure: This is the method of using a software-based method to overwrite the data that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media.
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