"Consumer privacy is information privacy as it relates to the consumers of products and services."
This topic covers the importance of protecting consumer privacy, including the collection, use, and storage of personal information by businesses and the laws and regulations surrounding this.
Data Protection Laws: A set of legal frameworks that regulate the collection, handling, and processing of personal data by organizations.
Personal Data: Any information that can be used to identify an individual, such as name, address, phone number, email address, etc.
Data Privacy Policies: A document that outlines the ways in which an organization handles the personal information of its customers and employees, including what data is collected, how it is used and shared, and how it is protected.
Consent: The act of a user agreeing to share their personal information with an organization or allow the organization to use it for specific purposes.
Privacy Notices: A statement that outlines the purpose of data collection, the type of data being collected, who is collecting it, and how it will be used.
Data Breaches: The unauthorized access, theft, or exposure of personal data.
Identity Theft: The act of stealing or using someone else's personal information without their consent.
Online Tracking: Data collection practices used by advertisers and marketers to track and monitor user behavior online.
Opt-out Options: The ability for users to choose not to have their personal information collected or shared by an organization.
Encryption: A technique used to protect personal data by encoding it in a way that only authorized parties can access it.
Access and Correction: The ability for users to access, review, and correct their personal information held by organizations.
Data Retention: The length of time that organizations hold onto personal information.
Third-party Data Sharing: The practice of sharing personal information with third-party organizations, such as data brokers or advertisers.
Cross-border Data Transfers: The transfer of personal information across borders and jurisdictions.
Privacy-by-Design: A framework that focuses on building privacy protections into the design of products, services, and systems from the outset.
Personal Information: This type of privacy involves the protection of personally identifiable information such as name, address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, etc.
Financial Information: This type of privacy involves the protection of financial data such as bank account numbers, credit card numbers, etc.
Health Information: This type of privacy involves the protection of sensitive medical information such as medical history, diagnoses, treatment plans, and prescriptions.
Web Browser Data: This type of privacy involves the protection of personal data that may be tracked by web browsers such as search history, visited websites or pages, and personal preferences.
Geolocation Data: This type of privacy involves the protection of location-based information of consumers, such as their current location, or the location of businesses they frequently visit, etc.
Social Media: This type of privacy involves the protection of the information shared on social media, such as personal information, which may be used for targeted advertising or identity theft.
Email Privacy: This type of privacy involves the protection of email data, such as messages, attachments, recipients, and confidential information, which may be vulnerable to hacking.
Online Purchases: This type of privacy involves the protection of personal data that is collected during online transactions such as shipping and billing information, credit card data, etc.
Identity Theft: This type of privacy involves the protection of personal information from being misused to obtain goods or services fraudulently, or for other criminal activities.
Data Breaches: This type of privacy deals with security incidents where sensitive or private information is compromised or stolen by cybercriminals.
"Consumer privacy concerns date back to the first commercial couriers and bankers who enforced strong measures to protect customer privacy."
"In modern times, the ethical codes of various professions specify measures to protect customer privacy, including medical privacy and client confidentiality."
"State interests include matters of national security."
"Consumer concerned about the invasion of individual information, thus doubtful when thinking about using certain services."
"Many organizations have a competitive incentive to collect, retain, and use customer data for various purposes."
"Many companies adopt security engineering measures to control this data and manage customer expectations and legal requirements for consumer privacy."
"Consumer privacy protection is the use of laws and regulations to protect individuals from privacy loss due to the failures and limitations of corporate customer privacy measures."
"Corporations may be inclined to share data for commercial advantage and fail to officially recognize it as sensitive to avoid legal liability in the chance that lapses of security may occur."
"Modern consumer privacy law originated from telecom regulation when it was recognized that a telephone company had access to unprecedented levels of information."
"Customer privacy measures were seen as deficient to deal with the many hazards of corporate data sharing, corporate mergers, employee turnover, and theft of data storage devices (e.g., hard drives) that could store a large amount of data in a portable location."
"Businesses have consumer data and information obtained from consumer and client purchases, products, and services. Thus, businesses have the responsibility to keep these data and information safe and confidential."
"Firms are expected to use methods such as obfuscation or encoding methods to cover up consumer data when analyzing data or trends, for example."
"Firms are also expected to protect consumer privacy both within the organizations themselves and from outside third entities including third party providers of services, suppliers who provide product components and supplies, and government institutions or community partnership organizations."
"In addition, businesses are sometimes required to provide an agreement/contract to service clients or product consumers that states customer or client information and data will be kept confidential and that it will not be used for advertising or promotional purposes, for example."
"The US government, including the FTC, have consumer protection laws like The Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Data Transparency and Privacy Act."
"Individual states have laws and regulations that protect consumers as well."
"One example of this is The California Consumer Privacy Act."
"A variety of social, legal and political issues arise from the interaction of the public's potential expectation of privacy and the collection and dissemination of data by businesses or merchants."
"Consumer privacy concerns date back to the first commercial couriers and bankers who enforced strong measures to protect customer privacy."