Glossary
Plain-language explanations for encryption, tracking, compliance, and security concepts.
Data Management
Controls that detect, monitor, and prevent unauthorized data exfiltration across endpoints, email, and cloud services.
Data Management
Documentation of data flows, sources, destinations, and transformations across systems and vendors.
Privacy
Principle of limiting data collection to what is necessary for a defined purpose.
Data Management
Concept covering control, rights, stewardship, and economic value of data.
Data Management
Right enabling individuals to receive and transmit their data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Data Management
Operations performed on personal data (collection, storage, use, disclosure, deletion).
Law
Contract governing processor obligations (security, sub-processors, assistance, breach notice, retention) for handled personal data.
Data Management
Entity processing personal data on behalf of a controller under instructions.
Privacy
Role responsible for advising on and monitoring data protection compliance.
Data Management
Set of dimensions (accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness) used to assess dataset reliability.
Data Management
Geographic location of data storage and, sometimes, processing within specific regions.
Data Management
Storage duration for data, defined by policy, law, and operational needs.
Data Management
Media sanitization process to render data unrecoverable prior to reuse, return, or disposal.
Data Management
Principle that data is subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) governing it.
Data Management
Identifiable individual to whom personal data relates; rights holder under many laws.
Data Management
Centralized analytical datastore optimized for querying and reporting across datasets.
Privacy
Re-identification of individuals by linking datasets and auxiliary information.
Networking
Architecture where control and operation are distributed across multiple independent nodes.
Networking
Identifier resolvable to a document containing public keys and service endpoints, controlled via cryptographic proofs.
Networking
Service whose operation or governance is distributed across nodes, protocols, or smart contracts.
Network Privacy
Single-tenant IP assignment for network services.
Privacy
Decentralized financial protocols operating via smart contracts and on-chain assets.
Security
Cryptographic proof of device integrity/state to a relying party; often hardware-backed and privacy-sensitive.
Tracking
High-entropy identifier derived from device/browser attributes to enable recognition without cookies.