Privacy by Design
Social Media
Surveillance
Data Breaches
Acronyms
100

This is considered a foundational principle of Privacy by Design, also may be compared to someone who takes charge or is a self-starter.

What is Proactive?

100

There was a tremendous, YUGE effort to ban this platform in the US in 2020.

What is TikTok?

100

This foundational concept of the CIA triad defines the rules that limit access to information. 

What is Confidentiality?

100

300,000 accounts were breached on this gaming platform in April 2020.

What is Nintendo?

100

This Canadian Act R.S.O 1990, C. F.31 serves the purpose of granting access to information and protecting the privacy of individuals.

What is FIPPA?

200

You may be sure that your clients want this feature, but better ask them to do what first?

What is Opt-In?

200

Everyone has this special day, tragically overused in passwords and usernames.

What is the Date of Birth?

200

Founded in 1990, this US nonprofit organization defends civil liberties in the digital world.

What is EFF?

200

This large hotel chain experienced a breach that affected 500 million customers in 2019.

What is Marriott?

200

A questionnaire framework offered by EDUCAUSE to help higher education institutions measure risk when engaging with vendors.

What is HECVAT?

300

This European regulation (2016/679) provided EU citizens with the right to be forgotten.

What is GDPR?

300

Leaving the default version of these in place and never reviewing them can lead to accidentally over-sharing personal information.

What are privacy settings?

300

This document is often exceptionally long, holds a lot of details, but is often overlooked. You must accept it to proceed.

What are Terms of Use Policy?

300

This Canadian accounting organization's breach in June 2020 affected over 329,000 individuals.

What is Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada or CPA?

300

This legislation is designed to give individuals greater control over how their personal health information is collected, used, or disclosed.

What is PHIPA?

400

The Privacy by Design framework was published in this year.

What is 2009?

400

Protect your social media accounts by enabling this when logging in.

What is two-step verification, two-factor authentication, or multifactor authentication?

400

The majority of free online services use this as a revenue stream.

What is an ad network or online ads?

400

In 2019, this medical testing data breach may have affected up to 15 million patient records in Canada.

What is LifeLabs?

400

This framework helps organizations develop, organize and implement strategies for information management and governance. 

What is CoBiT?

500

Who was the pioneer of Privacy by Design principles in Canada?

Who is Ann Cavoukian?

500

This company used a famous social media platform to collect data through quizzes and profiles.

What is Cambridge Analytica?

500

This stealthy threat actor, typically a nation state or state-sponsored group, gains unauthorized access to a computer network and remains undetected for an extended period.

What is an Advanced Persistent Threat or APT?

500

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?

500

A data security standard for organizations that accept, process, store, and/or transmit credit card information.

What is PCI-DSS?