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Data Protection Glossary (GDPR): Terms Explained Simply
This glossary brings together over 200 key data protection terms, GDPR/GDPR, information security and Compliance, compactly defined and practically explained. Use the A-Z navigation or the search function to quickly find topics such as Consent, legitimate interests, Rights of data subjects, Order processingData breaches, Pseudonymization, Profiling, Cookies/Trackingthird country transfers, Standard contractual clauses, Technical and Organizational Measures (TOM) and Video Surveillance to find.
Each entry offers clear Definitionstypical use cases, common synonyms/definitions and references to relevant Legal basis the GDPR. Ideal for data protection officers, IT and security teams, Marketing, HR and legal departments, and equally suitable for training sessions and Awareness-Measures.
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- Warning
- Accountability
- Address trading
- Equivalence Intelligence
- Appropriateness decision
- Anonymization
- Archive
- Art. 9 data
- Art. 29 Group
- Audit
- Storage
- Regulatory Authority
- Order control
- Order processing
- Right to information
- Authentication
- Automated decision making
- Awareness
- Back-up concept
- User rights concept
- Legitimate interests
- Correction
- Employee Data
- Complaint
- Inventory data
- Existing customer exception
- Works Council
- Company agreement
- Affected parties
- Rights of data subjects
- Applicant data
- Big Data
- Binding Corporate Rules
- Biometric procedures
- Blacklist
- Blacklisting
- Brexit
- Bring Your Own Device
- Federal Office for Information Security
- Federal Data Protection Act
- Federal Constitutional Court
- Fine
- Clean Desk Policy
- Cloud
- National Commission on Information Technology and Civil Liberties
- Compliance
- Consent Management Tool
- Cookies
- Cybersecurity
- Data minimization
- Data breach
- Data Protection Impact Assessment
- Data protection management system
- Data protection auditor
- Data Protection Officer (DPO)
- Privacy Policy (Definition of Terms)
- General Data Protection Regulation
- Data protection conference
- Data protection coordinator
- Data protection manager
- Data protection team
- Data security
- Data Transmission
- Data processing agreement
- Definitions
- DIN standard
- Documentation
- Third
- Third country
- GDPR
- E-mail marketing
- E-mail security
- E-Privacy Regulation
- Input control
- Consent
- Decryption
- Necessity
- Reservation of permission
- European Data Protection Board
- European Court of Justice
- Telecommunications secrecy
- Fonts
- Photos
- Suitable guarantees
- Shared responsibility
- Geo-blocking
- Geolocalization
- Health data
- Separate responsibility
- Competitions
- Google Analytics
- GPS
- Principles of the GDPR
- Liability
- Budget exception
- Home office
- Human Resources
- Legal Notice (Definition)
- Incident Management
- Information Commissioners Office
- Informational self-determination
- Duty to inform
- Information security officer
- Integrity
- International Association of Privacy Professionals
- Internet of Things
- IP address
- ISO standards
- IT baseline protection
- IT security
- JI Directive
- AI Use Case
- AI tool
- Church data protection
- Coherence Method
- Consultation
- Contact form (online)
- Prohibition of tying
- Cryptography
- Artificial Intelligence
- Art Copyright Act
- Guidelines
- Fire Suppression Plan
- Deletion
- Multi-client capability
- Marketing
- Measures (catalog)
- Obligation to report (data breach)
- Reporting obligation (data protection officer)
- Messenger
- Mobile Device Management
- Model map
- Detection principle
- Need-to-know principle
- Networks
- Emergency management
- Usage data
- Public Agency
- One-stop store
- Opt-in/opt-out
- Administrative offense
- Orientation aids
- Passwords/Password Policy
- Patient Data Protection Act
- Personnel file
- Personal data
- Phishing
- PIA tool
- Privacy by design/by default
- Privacy Shield
- Privacy
- Profiling
- Logs (log files)
- Pseudonymization
- Quality Management
- Ransomware
- Right to one's own image
- Right to be forgotten
- Legal basis
- Risk/risk analysis
- Risk-based approach
- Safe Harbor
- Compensation for damages/compensation for pain and suffering
- Shadow AI
- Schrems
- Training and sensitization
- Server
- Single sign-on
- Smishing
- Social engineering
- Social plug-ins
- Social networks/social media
- SSL/TLS certificate
- State of the art
- Standard data protection model
- Standard contractual clauses
- Criminal offenses
- Synthetic data
- Activity Report
- Technical and Organizational Measures
- Teleworking
- Telephone advertising
- Tracking
- Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
- Transfer Impact Assessment
- Transparency
- Trojan
- Transmission
- Responsible persons
- Processing
- Processing directory
- Collective action
- Availability
- Availability Check
- Traffic data
- Commitment to confidentiality
- Encryption
- Deceased
- Infringement
- Confidentiality
- Representative (EU representative)
- Record of Processing Activities
- Video conference
- Video Surveillance
- Data retention
- VPN
- Transfer control
- Advertising
- Whistleblowing
- Whitelist
- Whitelisting
- Revocation
- Contradiction
- WLAN
- YouTube
- Certification
- System Access Control
- Data Access Control
- Physical Access Control
- Earmarking
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