Meaning of data protection | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or process of protecting data from unauthorized use by ensuring security and privacy through consciously chosen and enforced rules and methods.
   attributive, often, uncountable, usually
2. The business function (team, department, squad, etc) that leads others in their performance of this act or process.
   capitalized, often, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“The links were mostly to newspaper articles and public records, and Google refused to comply, but with the “right to be forgotten” enshrined as a key objective of the European Union’s 2011 data protection strategy, more and bigger cases are likely to follow.”

“The train company did not breach data protection law for publishing the clip during the so-called traingate controversy.”

“However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers[.]”

“This proposal has to be cleared by Legal, Human Resources, and Data Protection before it can proceed further.”

CEFR level