Data Privacy Acronyms
This 4-letter European law governs how organisations must handle personal data.
What is GDPR?
This number assigned to UK employees for tax and benefits purposes is considered personal data.
What is National Insurance Number?
This small text file created by websites stores information about your browsing activity, preferences, login details, etc.
What is a Cookie?
This method of protecting accounts requires two pieces of evidence to log in.
What is 2-Factor Authentication/Multi-Factor Authentication?
<BLANK> Analytica was fined $5 billion and £500,000 for unauthorised harvesting of people’s Facebook data for political advertising.
Also a city in the UK.
What is Cambridge?
This 3-letter regulator ‘ICO’ is the <BLANK> Commissioner’s Office.
Also a word for details or facts.
What is Information?
Data when it becomes unknown and can no longer be traced back to an individual.
Also the name of an infamous hacker group.
What is Anonymous?
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?
This type of cyber-attack involves emails pretending to be legitimate to trick people into revealing data.
What is Phishing?
This major European airline was the fined the largest amount ever for a data breach under GDPR.
What is British Airways?
This 3-letter type of data ‘PII’ can identify an individual.
What is Personally Identifiable Information?
A category of personal data including race, financial information, criminal record.
Also another word for delicate or fragile.
What is Sensitive?
This type of cookie is needed for a video on a website to run.
What is a Functional Cookie?
This practice involves scrambling data so only those with a key can read it. WhatsApp uses this end-to-end.
What is Encryption?
This George Orwell novel warns against a surveillance state with no privacy.
Also inspired the reality TV show Big Brother.
What is 1984?
The 3-letter UK law governs the processing of personal data.
What is the Data Protection Act?
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.
What is Tracking?
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 consent, came 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?
This 4-letter popular website ‘HIBP’ 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 bad place where personal data can end up if exposed in a data breach.
Also what a spider spins.
What is the Dark Web?
This type of phishing attack 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.
What is Snowden?