Relationships Related Term:  privacy n. ~ The legal protection of personal information that organizations hold in electronic format. Notes:  Although the United States has legislation controlling the [..]

Data protection refers to the set of privacy-motivated laws, policies and procedures that aim to minimise intrusion into respondents’ privacy caused by the collection, storage and dissemination of per [..]

The implementation of administrative, technical, or physical measures to guard against the unauthorized access to data. [2382-pt.8]

Data protection is the process of protecting data and involves the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data and technology, the public perception and expectation of privacy and th [..]

Protection from misuse of personal information stored on electronic systems. The goal is to protect the rights (particularly rights to privacy) and fundamental freedoms of individuals with regard to automatic processing of their personal data. 

The Data Protection Act 1998 controls how organisations should use and store people’s personal data. This includes much of the information used in monitoring and assessing equality.