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Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. [1]
In August 2007 the code used to generate Facebook's home and search page as visitors browse the site was accidentally made public. [6] [7] A configuration problem on a Facebook server caused the PHP code to be displayed instead of the web page the code should have created, raising concerns about how secure private data on the site was.
Internet privacy is primarily concerned with protecting user information. Law Professor Jerry Kang explains that the term privacy expresses space, decision, and information. [11] In terms of space, individuals have an expectation that their physical spaces (e.g. homes, cars) not be intruded.
The average cost of a data breach from any source (not necessarily a flash drive) ranges from less than $100,000 to about $2.5 million. [1] A SanDisk survey [3] characterized the data corporate end users most frequently copy: Customer data (25%) Financial information (17%) Business plans (15%) Employee data (13%) Marketing plans (13%)
The European Directive on Data Protection that went into effect in October 1998, includes, for example, the requirement to create government data protection agencies, registration of databases with those agencies, and in some instances prior approval before personal data processing may begin. In order to bridge these different privacy ...
Another data protection control that could be included is backing up data [24] as it could be restored if the original becomes unavailable. Device Management: involves knowing how to protect mobile devices and computers. Device Management is also concerned with security related to Bring Your Own Device .
To protect the privacy and liberty rights of individuals, federal agencies must state "the authority (whether granted by statute, or by Executive order of the President) which authorizes the solicitation of the information and whether disclosure of such information is mandatory or voluntary" when requesting information.
Software-based security solutions encrypt the data to protect it from theft. However, a malicious program or a hacker could corrupt the data to make it unrecoverable, making the system unusable. Hardware-based security solutions prevent read and write access to data, which provides very strong protection against tampering and unauthorized access.