Module #1: Introduction to Privacy Flashcards
What are the 4 classes of Privacy?
1) Information Privacy
2) Communications Privacy
3) Bodily Privacy
4) Territorial Privacy
What is covered by information Privacy
Establishes the rules that govern the collection and handling of personal information.
What is covered by Communications Privacy
Establishes protections of the means of correspondence such as:
- Postal Mail
- Telephone conversations
- Emails
What are examples of personal info?
- Financial and Medical
- Government records
- Internet activity
What are examples of communications privacy?
- Postal Mail
- Telephone conversations
- Emails
What is covered by Bodily Privacy?
Establishes protections of a person’s physical being and any invasion thereof:
- genetic and drug testing
- body cavity searches
- birth control, abortions, and adoption
What are examples of bodily privacy?
- genetic and drug testing
- body cavity searches
- birth control, abortions, and adoption
What is covered by Territorial Privacy?
Establishes placing limits on the ability to intrude into another individual’s environment, including:
- Home
- Workspace
- Public Space
What are the 4 principles of Fair Information Practices?
- Rights of individuals
- Controls on the information
- Information lifecycle
- Management
Fair Information Practices:
What is covered by the Rights of Individuals principle?
- Notice
- Choice and Consent
- data subject access
Fair Information Practices:
What is covered by Controls on the information principle?
- Information security
- integrity
- quality
Fair Information Practices lifecycle:
What is covered by the Information lifecycle principle?
collection, use and retention, disclosure, and destruction
Fair Information Practices lifecycle:
What is covered by Management principle?
Management and administration;
monitoring and enforcement;
demonstrating compliance
What is data protection?
the ways in which privacy is
protected through laws, rules and regulations.
What is Fair Information Practices?
They are guidelines for
handling, storing and managing personal information properly.
Data controller
An organization or individual with the authority to decide how and why
information about data subjects is to be processed
Data subject
An individual about whom information is being processed. Example: Consumer,
employee, patient
Data processor
An organization or individual, often a third-party outsourcing service that
processes data on behalf of the data controller
Data protection authority
Enforces privacy or data protection laws and regulations. U.S. has no national data protection authority per se, but
several groups oversee privacy matters
(FTC, state attorneys general, federal financial regulators)
Is privacy in the Constitution?
Zero. You can infer that the founding fathers did think about this. When you look at
the amendments.
Third Amendment: I can’t come in and quarter soldiers in your home.
Fourth Amendment: Right to protection against undue seizure.
Fifth Amendment: Can’t
incriminate myself.
Thirteenth Amendment: Due process.
1970s in privacy?
privacy concerns about the collection of personal information began
The Privacy Act of 1974
What happened in 1973?
Fair information practices (FIPs) were developed in 1973 and provided guidelines for handling, storing and managing data with privacy, security and fairness that are still in use today.
What happened in 1974?
The Privacy Act of 1974 mandates how information will be adequately processed and safeguarded
What decade?
direct marketing and telemarketing tactics
1980s in privacy?
