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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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Bank Info Security 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Senate Bill Seeks Privacy Protection for Brain Wave Data

MIND Act Asks FTC to Study Exploitation Risks for Neural Data Collected by DevicesAre brain waves and similar neural data the next frontier in consumer privacy worries? A trio of U.S. senators have introduced federal legislation aiming to get ahead of risks that such brain-related data could be collected and misused by tech firms, data brokers, government agencies and others.

More from Bank Info Security 27 Sep 2025, 7:30 a.m. America Government Privacy Study
Bank Info Security 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Google, Flo Health, Flurry to Pay $59.5M in Privacy Lawsuit

Settlement Ends Litigation Alleging Unlawful Sharing of Consumers' Fertility DataFlo Health, Google and Flurry have agreed to shell out millions of dollars to fund a nearly $60 million settlement for proposed class action lawsuit that accused Flo of using tracking codes in its fertility app that shared women's sensitive information with Google and Flurry without their consent.

More from Bank Info Security 26 Sep 2025, 9:00 a.m. Google Healthcare Lawsuit Privacy Proposal Sensitive Information

Guidance follows privacy complaints over sharp increase in police searches of travel doc and visa pic libraries The Home Office has told police forces to check their own photo databases before asking it to search its libraries of passport and visa facial images, as well as avoiding urgent requests "unless it is absolutely necessary."…

More from The Register 25 Sep 2025, 8:48 p.m. Credit Card Privacy United Kingdom