Privacy – Data
The privacy of data is the safeguard that shields the intimate details of our digital lives, preserving our autonomy, dignity, and trust in our interconnected world. Chapter 12 already covered data types, data classifications, federal data considerations, and methods to secure data. In Chapter 11, we covered the roles and responsibilities for systems and data, looking at the roles of data owners, controllers, processors, custodians, and stewards. Here, however, we are looking at data from a compliance point of view, that is, the data subject, controller versus processor, ownership, data inventory, and retention:
- Data subject: The data subject is anyone whose personal information is being collected and stored, and the rights and protections of the data subject depend on which privacy regulations are applicable to them. The data subject is an important legal entity; for instance, they are granted the “right to be forgotten” in GDPR’s...
