When conducting a review of how a service provider will handle personal information for this or that process, the subject inevitably turns to the protection of the personal information involved. Often it is said that everything should be fine; the vendor passed the security review and the confidentiality clause is airtight. While these things are good and important and are positive statements about information protection, management, and recourse in the event it is needed; they are not answers as to how the personal information will be protected; i.e.; how privacy will be managed. Show The reason for this is the goals and requirement of privacy are not entirely the same as those of information security or those of confidentiality. As such, it is important not to confuse one for the other. In fact, doing so may create risk rather than mitigate it. So, how is data privacy different from information security and from confidentiality? How are they alike? How they are alike is easy to answer. They are all forms of information protection. Beyond that it is easier to understand how they overlap by understanding how they are different. Let’s start with definitions. Privacy is the fair and authorized processing and access of personal information. Note there are many definitions of privacy. This is an operational definition. Personal information is any information that can be used to identify or contact an individual or be reasonably linked to a specific individual, device or computer. Processing is any action or inaction that can be performed in relation to that data or dataset. Processing personal information includes, but is not limited to, collection, storage, use, sharing, organization, display, recording, alignment, combination, disclosure by transmission, copying, consultation, erasure, destruction, and alteration of personally identifiable information and any data related to it. Fair and authorized includes notions of the ideas embodied in the Fair Information Practice Principles or the OECD Privacy Guidelines such as collection limitation, data quality, purpose specification, use limitation, security safeguards, openness, accountability, and individual participation. Information Security is that the use of logical, technical, administrative, physical safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data is maintained. Confidentiality is preventing authorized access to non-public information that two or more parties have agreed to restrict. The Overlaps Information Security safeguards ensure the “authorized” in the “authorized access and use” that is a cornerstone the operational definition of privacy. This is why one cannot have privacy without security. Note, though one can have security without privacy (which is one of the major disconnects) where personal information is not involved. Three other areas of overlap between privacy and information security:
What is the difference between privacy confidentiality and security?Security protects confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, whereas privacy is more granular about privacy rights with respect to personal information. Privacy prevails when it comes to processing personal data, while security means protecting information assets from unauthorized access.
What is difference between security and privacy explain with example?Security is about the safeguarding of data, whereas privacy is about the safeguarding of user identity. The specific differences, however, are more complex, and there can certainly be areas of overlap between the two. Security refers to protection against the unauthorized access of data.
What's the difference between private and confidential information?Key Differences Between Privacy and Confidentiality
Privacy talks about a person, but Confidentiality is about information. Privacy restricts the public from accessing the personal details about a person, whereas Confidentiality protects the information from the range of unauthorised persons.
What is security and confidentiality?Information Security is that the use of logical, technical, administrative, physical safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data is maintained. Confidentiality is preventing authorized access to non-public information that two or more parties have agreed to restrict.
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