Privacy by Design
This principle requires limiting the collection of personal information to what is directly relevant and necessary for a specified purpose.
What is data minimization?
There was a tremendous, YUGE effort to ban this platform in the US in 2020.
What is TikTok?
Using this service allows users to connect to the internet via a remote, encrypted server, preserving privacy
What is a VPN (virtual private network)?
300,000 accounts were breached on this gaming platform in April 2020.
What is Nintendo?
This U.S. federal law protects the privacy of student educational records.
What is FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)?
You may be sure that your clients want this feature, but better ask them to ____ first
What is Opt-In?
Everyone has this special day, tragically overused in passwords and usernames.
What is the Date of Birth?
Replacing private identifiers with fake identifiers to reduce the risk of data breaches, while still allowing the data to be matched later with its source, is called this.
What is pseudonymization?
This large hotel chain experienced a breach that affected 500 million customers in 2019.
What is Marriott?
This acronym refers to information that can be used to identify an individual, such as a name, address, or social security number.
What is PII (Personally Identifiable Information)?
This European regulation (2016/679) provided EU citizens with the right to be forgotten.
What is GDPR?
Leaving the default version of these in place and never reviewing them can lead to accidentally over-sharing personal information.
What are privacy settings?
This specific technique adds statistical noise to a dataset to ensure that the presence or absence of any single individual in the data does not affect the final output
What is differential privacy?
This Canadian accounting organization's breach in June 2020 affected over 329,000 individuals.
What is Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada or CPA?
An individual's request to an organization to access their personal data is known by this acronym.
What is a DSAR or SAR (Data Subject Access Request / Subject Access Request)?
The Privacy by Design framework was published in this year.
What is 2009?
Protect your social media accounts by enabling this when logging in.
What is 2FA (two-factor authentication)?
When personal data is converted to fingerprints through a hash process to identify matches without storing the actual data, this technique is called something like Exact Data Match
What is tokenization (or data masking/hashing)?
In 2019, this medical testing data breach may have affected up to 15 million patient records in Canada.
What is LifeLabs?
This is the role of an independent advisor who oversees GDPR compliance and data protection issues in some organizations.
What is a DPO (Data Protection Officer)?
Collecting less data shrinks a company's "attack surface," reducing the potential damage from one of these events.
What is a data breach?
This private chat app provides encrypted messaging, voice, and video calls
What is Signal?
This type of software, often associated with a dark orange logo, protects your privacy by bouncing your connection around a distributed network run by volunteers.
What is the Tor browser (the onion router)?
This platform that serves up your favorite tunes experienced a data breach in November 2020 that may have included email address, display name, password, gender, and date of birth.
What is Spotify?
A data security standard for organizations that accept, process, store, and/or transmit credit card information.
What is PCI-DSS?