What is Data Protection?Data protection is the practice of safeguarding data from loss, corruption, or compromise. It involves ensuring the privacy and safeguarding of data from compromise. Data protection includes data integrity, data privacy, protection from errors and corruption, and guidance on the use of data by businesses.The concept of data protection applies to personal, business, public entities, and political and international data. It is becoming more critical as the volume of data collected and stored digitally on online platforms rises.Why Data Protection?
- Protect personal data from being misused, mishandled, or exploited
- Ensure that the fundamental rights and freedoms of providers of data are being upheld
- Ensure fair and friendly practices in commercial activities between consumers and businesses
- Placing responsibilities with organisations on handling personal data
- Provide greater control and understanding to individuals over how their data is collected and used
- Lawful, Fairness, and Transparency
- Purpose Limitation
- Data Minimization
- Accuracy
- Storage Limitation
- Integrity and Confidentiality
- Accountability
- Failure of Storage Systems
- Data Corruption
- Failure of Storage System
- Data Center Failure
Evita Veigas
6 min read