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Click here to take part in a short, anonymous survey to help us improve our site. Privacy versus Confidentiality December 8, - Sharon Young, Analyst Privacy and confidentiality are two concepts often mistaken to be the same thing.
The terms privacy, confidentiality and security have a lot in common as they apply to modern-day information technology, but they also have their own meanings and their own significant roles in their application to data maintenance and data management.
It involves the protection of vulnerable data such as Facebook data, customer response data and other kinds of demographic data or personal data from being freely disseminated over the Internet or sold to third parties. Confidentiality is a similar idea, but with a slightly different component. IT professionals often talk about confidentiality in terms of a supplier or service provider and its customers. Confidentiality agreements are often applied to situations where someone trusted with personal data must safeguard this data from being released.
Alternately, some may define confidentiality as issues about the data that gets collected, where privacy issues have to do, again, with the core principle of an individual not being recorded or monitored. Security is a different term that's applied to enterprise or government systems. Security may include the idea of customer privacy, but the two are not synonymous. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Key Differences Between Privacy and Confidentiality The following are the major differences between privacy and confidentiality: Privacy is a situation when a person is free from public interference.
Confidentiality is a situation when information is kept secret from the reach of any other person. 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.
In privacy, everyone is disallowed from interfering in the personal matters of a person. Conversely, in confidentiality some specified and trustworthy people are allowed to have access to the information.
Privacy is at the voluntary; it is the choice of a person. In contrast to Confidentiality, it is compulsory if the relationship between parties is a fiduciary.
Privacy is a right. 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. 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. This is why one cannot have privacy without security.
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