Data privacy is the relationship between collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, and the legal and political issues surrounding them.
Privacy concerns exist wherever personally identifiable information (PII) is collected and stored - in digital form or otherwise. Improper or non-existent disclosure control can be the root cause for privacy issues. Data privacy issues can arise in response to information from a wide range of sources, such as:
• Healthcare: EMR and EMR records
• Criminal justice investigations and proceedings
• Financial institutions and transactions
• Biological / Ethnicity traits, such as genetic material
• Residence and geographic records
The challenge in data privacy is to share data while protecting personally identifiable information (PII). The fields of data security and information security design and utilize software, hardware and human resources to address this issue.
The terms information security, computer security and information assurance are frequently incorrectly used interchangeably. These fields are interrelated often and share the common goals of protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information; however, there are some subtle differences between them.
These differences lie primarily in the approach to the subject, the methodologies used, and the areas of concentration. Information security is concerned with the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data regardless of the form the data may take: electronic, print, or other forms.
Note: Guard your Social Security number. Your SSN should be treated as "classified information." Few people have the right to access it.
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