Privacy

Emerging tools and practices that govern the collection, use, and storage of personal data. The creation of policies and procedures that enable compliance with global privacy regulations. Addressing issues relating to identity theft and phishing to protect system users and business applications. Defining clear policies and controls for the use and storage of personal information in IT systems. Privacy enhancing technologies, including unlinkable authentication systems, pseudonymity, privacy-preserving data mining, anonymous message routing. Systems and procedures which enforce accountability for operations on private information. Business and legal agreements supporting protection of private information. Use of personal information in the context of relationships whose rules explicitly govern uses and disclosures of information.

• Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
• Privacy policy
• Privacy legislation
• OECD privacy guidelines
• EU data protection directive
• FERPA
• COPPA
• HIPAA
• Identity theft
• Identity fraud
• Phishing
• Pharming
• Data de-identification
• Pseudonymity
• Anonymity

This topic relates to the Identity and Privacy coverage area - Identity Infrastructure Planning and building general-purpose infrastructure for managing and applying identity information, and supporting the digital identity lifecycle.

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