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Privacy concerns how laws and norms govern personal data, shaping cybersecurity duties for collection, storage, access, and disclosure.

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Privacy is the ability of people to control how information about them is collected, used, retained, and disclosed. In technical and legal contexts, it covers identifiable data and data that can support inferences about a person, not only information made public. Privacy rules and organizational policies commonly address purpose, transparency, access, correction, retention, and sharing.

For security practitioners, privacy depends on reducing unnecessary data and restricting legitimate access: data minimization, encryption, least-privilege controls, segregation of identifiers, retention limits, and audit logs all reduce exposure. Compromised credentials, misconfigured storage, excessive telemetry, or third-party access can reveal sensitive information; pseudonymized datasets may also be re-identified when combined with other data. During an incident, teams must establish what personal data was accessed or disclosed, contain further exposure, preserve evidence, and meet applicable notification and handling requirements.

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As Meta reels from €390 million EU fine, the 'personalized ads' case might not be over, Max Schrem’s legal group says Lengthy privacy notices included in a social media platform's terms of service can do little to help it comply with transparency requirements under European law, according to recently revealed documents from a case in which Meta was fined €390 million ($414 million).…

More from The Register 14 Jan 2023, 12:30 a.m. Europe Fine Privacy Social Media