Data Privacy Acronyms
A 4-letter European law which governs how organisations must handle personal data.
What is GDPR?
The number assigned to UK employees for tax and benefits purposes; is considered personal data.
What is National Insurance Number?
A small text file created by websites that stores information about your browsing activity, preferences, and login details.
What is a Cookie?
A method protecting accounts by requiring two pieces of evidence to log in.
What is 2FA/MFA?
<BLANK> Analytica was fined $5 billion and £500,000 for unauthorised harvesting of people’s Facebook data for political advertising, also the city of a top 2 English university.
What is Cambridge?
The 3-letter UK law governing the processing of personal data; ‘DPA’.
What is the Data Protection Act?
Data when it becomes unknown and can no longer be traced back to an individual, also the name of an infamous hacker group.
Something you may need to give for your personal data to be used and stored and can prohibit the use of your data if you don’t give it.
What is Consent?
A type of cyber-attack involving emails pretending to be legitimate to trick employees into revealing data.
What is Phishing?
A Sony opco that suffered a major data and privacy breach in 2011, impacting 77 million consumers.
What is PlayStation?
The 3-letter regulator ‘ICO’ is <BLANK> Commissioner’s Office; also, a word for details or facts.
What is Information?
A category of personal data including race, health information, biometrics, also another word for delicate or fragile.
What is Sensitive?
A type of cookie needed for a website to run.
A practice involving scrambling data so only those with a key can read it, WhatsApp uses this end-to-end.
What is Encryption?
The George Orwell novel published in 1949 which warned against a surveillance state with no privacy, also inspired the reality TV show Big Brother.
What is 1984?
The 3-letter type of data ‘PII’ that can identify an individual.
What is Personally Identifiable Information?
Data when a technique is used to replace identifying elements in data with artificial values, to make it harder to trace back but not untraceable. Also the pen name of children’s author <BLANK> Bosch.
What is Pseudonymous?
An activity involving recording your browsing behaviour to personalise ads and measure performance. Also a word referring to checking where your post or parcel is.
This Wi-Fi type is unsafe for accessing corporate data unless a VPN is used; also, a type of school.
What is Public WiFi?
The Video Privacy Protection Act, which protects your viewing history from being shared without your consent, came about as a result of an attempt to expose a US solicitor’s viewing history from this discontinued video rental store, also a word to refer to a successful film.
What is Blockbuster?
The 4-letter popular website ‘HIBP’ which allows you to check if your data has been exposed in a data breach.
What is HaveIBeenPwned?
Devices that gather your personal data through sensors and wireless networks, such as some TVs, washing machines, and watches. Also another word for intelligent.
What is Smart?
A ‘dark’ place where personal data can end up if exposed in a data breach, also what a spider spins.
What is the Dark Web?
A type of phishing attack that is highly personalised using information obtained by researching the victim. Also a pole with a sharp end.
What is Spear?
A former US intelligence agent in the National Security Agency who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a film of the same name. Also the name of a Welsh mountain.
What is Snowden?