What is Privacy

The user act of seclude the information about himself and thereby reveal the information selectively. Learn more in: Privacy and Data Protection towards Elderly Healthcare

To provide the necessary services, mechanisms and protocols for making legitimate agents and users anonymous, whilst ensuring that illegitimate agents and users are eliminated and/or exposed. Learn more in: Concept of Mobile Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace – Safety Measures

The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Learn more in: Chinese Smartphone Market Progress and Prospects

is the right of an individual to be secure from unauthorized access, disclosure and being able to control information about oneself that is contained in different documents/files, databases or Web-pages. Learn more in: Role of Privacy and Trust in Mobile Business Social Networks

Right of peoples and their group to keep their own information from others. Learn more in: Technology and Terror

A request for preventing unauthorized disclosure of data. Learn more in: Security Issues of Cloud Computing and an Encryption Approach

Privacy is the fact of protecting personal data and information related to a communication entity to be collected from other entities that are not authorized. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity and can be seen as an aspect of security. Learn more in: Trustworthy Networks, Authentication, Privacy, and Security Models

Related to with students because the aim is to analyse the information extracted in their learning process. Learn more in: Learning Analytics in the Monitoring of Learning Processes: 3D Educational Collaborative Virtual Environments

The ability of individuals or groups to keep information about themselves in a defined space and to prevent to make them visible to a broader audience. Privacy sometimes conflicts with security issues. Learn more in: Technology Assessment

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Maintaining the anonymity of users’ sensitive information hosted on the cloud. Learn more in: Multi-Perspectives of Cloud Computing Service Adoption Quality and Risks in Higher Education

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The claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated to others. Learn more in: Trust in an Enterprise World: A Survey

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The right to informational self-determination, that is, individuals must be able to determine for themselves when, how, to what extent, and for what purpose personal information about them is communicated to others. Learn more in: Privacy and Anonymity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

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The ability to control the release of information about oneself. Learn more in: Trends in Government e-Authentication: Policy and Practice

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Refers to the general belief that certain items such as written materials, oral communications, and matters having to do with personal relationships are confidential and should remain so unless they are voluntarily divulged. Learn more in: The Evolutionary Path of Legal Responses to Cybercrime Threats Over the Last Decade

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It is the right to be free from secret surveillance and to determine whether, when, how, and to whom, one's personal or organizational information is to be revealed. Learn more in: A New Approach in Cloud Computing User Authentication

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Process of ensuring that no property of user data collected by a system is disclosed. Learn more in: Effective, Privacy-First Display Advertising: Ambient Intelligence for Online Ambient Environments

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The ability of the software product to keep private all confidential data by the users. Learn more in: Trustworthy Computing

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The right to be secluded from the presence or view of others. Learn more in: Peer-to-Peer Social Networks

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The right to be secluded from the presence or view of others. Learn more in: A P2P Architecture for Social Networking

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Privacy can be defined as the right of individuals to determine for themselves when , how and to what extent information about them is communicated to others. Learn more in: Privacy-Conscious Data Mashup: Concepts, Challenges and Directions

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“The interest that individuals have in sustaining a ‘personal space,’ free from interference by other people and organizations” (Clarke, 2006). Learn more in: Adapting to Virtual Third-Space Language Learning Futures

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A conformance to authorizations in regards to dissemination of individual or corporate private information. Learn more in: Digital Library Service System; Digital Library System; Document Model; Grid Computing; Grid Infrastructure; Institutional Repository; Service Oriented Architecture

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Traditionally, the notion that one has the right to be left alone. Recognized under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as protecting individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. In the private sector, protects against unreasonable intrusions upon seclusion (see above). Learn more in: Employee Privacy in Virtual Workplaces

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Refers to one’s right to keep his/her personal matters or information secret. Learn more in: Determinants of E-Government Satisfaction: The Case Study of E-Procurement

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Ensuring privacy involves citizens having control over existing information about themselves and exercising this control in a consistent manner with their personal interests and values. Learn more in: Privacy and Security Challenges in the Internet of Things

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Privacy is everyone’s right to determine what information about himself is communicated to others or used for which purpose. Learn more in: Social Networking and Privacy: A Contradiction?

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Right to control who, when, how and to what extent personal information is communicated to others. Learn more in: The Emergence of Biobanks: Between Ethics, Risks, and Governance

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The ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively – the “right to be left alone”. Learn more in: Privacy Implications and Protection in the New Ubiquitous Web Environment

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Privacy is defined as a two-dimensional construct, involving physical space and information and is contingent on consumers and their individual experience. Learn more in: Cybersecurity: What Matters to Consumers – An Exploratory Study

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Refers to users’ concerns to share personal information and reveal their browsing habits. Users want that the information they share with the website will not be shared with a third-party. Learn more in: Web Usage Mining and the Challenge of Big Data: A Review of Emerging Tools and Techniques

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A person’s right to control his or her personal information. Learn more in: Responsibilities and Liabilities with Respect to Catastrophes

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Privacy is the ability of individuals to seclude information about themselves. In other words, they selectively control its dissemination. Learn more in: Big Data Security: Challenges, Recommendations and Solutions

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Control of personal information. Learn more in: Privacy and Banking in Australia

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The state of being free from unwanted intrusions of others in one’s personal information. Learn more in: Does Interface Design Influence Consumers' Security Perception?

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The state of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Learn more in: Provision of Governmental Services through Mobile Phones and Tablets and Threats to Users' Security and Privacy

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A belief that personal information entered into an information system will remain private and secure. Learn more in: E-Government Service Adoption and the Impact of Privacy and Trust

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Quality or state of being apart from company of observation; freedom from unauthorized intrusion. Learn more in: Privacy, Societal, and Ethical Concerns in Security

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The ability of an individual or group to seclude information about themselves or selectively reveal their information. Learn more in: A Routine Activity Theory-Based Framework for Combating Cybercrime

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Privacy involves keeping the user data and integrity safe from external attack. Learn more in: A Review of Security Challenges in Cloud Storage of Big Data

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Desired degrees of control over contact with others. Learn more in: Well-Being and Home Environments

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Broader than intimacy, it includes a set of more extended and global facets of the personality that isolated may lack intrinsic meaning but coherently linked cast a portrait of the personality that the individual has the right to keep reserved. Learn more in: Oblivion Is Full of Memory: Legal Issues Raised in the EU by the Right to Erasure

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The ability of a social network user in keeping control over who accesses which part of his information, including the social network’s provider, if any. Typically, the provider gives the user means to prevent other users from accessing his information. However, the user has no guarantees against abuse by the provider itself, which has access to every piece of information the user supplies. Privacy policies usually exist, but the user has no way to enforce compliance by the provider. Learn more in: Bridging Provider-Centric and User-Centric Social Networks

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is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share common themes. When something is private to a person , it usually means there is something to them inherently special or sensitive. The domain of privacy partially overlaps security, including for instance the concepts of appropriate use, as well as protection of information. Privacy may also take the form of bodily integrity. Learn more in: Security Issues in Cloud Computing

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The right to be secluded from the presence or view of others. Learn more in: Supporting Participation in Online Social Networks

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A person’s right to control access to his or her personal information. Learn more in: Legal and Regulatory Challenges in Facilitating a Sustainable ASEAN E-Commerce Sector

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Liberal political theory recognizes this capacity in the rational individual and tends to advocate the protection of the individual’s ability to use this capacity. From this is derived the notion that privacy is one way in which the individual could be protected from becoming subject to manipulation by others. An important point is that the concept of privacy in this chapter is almost always informational privacy or privacy as it relates to information disclosed by an individual. How the concept of informational privacy is derived will be crucial to understanding the way in which other central concepts are used. Learn more in: Privacy and the Identity Gap in Socio-Technical Systems

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Portions of a document can be set to private, so that they are invisible during the interoperation process. Learn more in: Security in Semantic Interoperation

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the fundamental right of individuals to be free from intrusion or interference by others including the right to control information about oneself. Discussions in ethics and law together with the term privacy consider questions of confidentiality (the obligation to safeguard entrusted information) and protection of personal data (informational self-determination). The European-continental understanding (which often relates to the ethical principle of dignity) diverges from the North American understanding, largely. Learn more in: Ethical Conflicts Regarding Technical Assistance Systems for the Elderly

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The state of being secluded from unwarranted intrusion into one’s private affairs and not disturbed by other parties. Learn more in: Information Disclosure on Social Networking Sites: An Exploratory Survey of Factors Impacting User Behaviour on Facebook

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The ability and/or right to protect the personal secrets; it extends to the ability and/or right to prevent invasions of the personal space (the exact definition varies from one country to another). Privacy is applicable to natural persons (human beings) but not to legal persons (such as corporations). Learn more in: Data Protection and Data Security Regarding Grid Computing in Biomedical Research

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The ability to choose what data to expose to others and what data to keep from others. Learn more in: Towards Privacy Awareness in Future Internet Technologies

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is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. Learn more in: Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media to the Islamic Banks in Indonesia

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The state of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Learn more in: Patient Privacy and Security in E-Health

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The requirement for an individual or group to shield private or personal information about them from being revealed. Learn more in: Privacy Preservation in Information Systems

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Privacy refers to the ability of individuals to control the collection, use, retention, and distribution of information about themselves. Learn more in: Avoiding Pitfalls in Policy-Based Privacy Management

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Protection of personal data. Learn more in: Ethics of Biomedical and Information Technologies

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Area of information control involved with the right to be left alone; involved with the protections from intrusion and information gathering by others; an individuals’ ability to personally control information about themselves. Learn more in: RFIDs and the Changing Marketplace

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A right recognized in the Charter of Fundamental Rights (2010) AU107: The in-text citation "Fundamental Rights (2010)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , and the GDPR. For many, it is a dynamic rights. The latest practice of the EU Member States indicated that privacy could be potentially used as expanding the theorems of harms. Learn more in: Is “Privacy” a Means to Protect the Competition or Advance Objectives of Innovation and Consumer Welfare?

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A set of legal requirements and good practices with regard to the handling of personal data Learn more in: Trust in Virtual Communities

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It is the special informations that an individual wants to keep secret from others. Learn more in: Marketing Ethics: Digital Transformation and Privacy Ethics

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Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. Learn more in: Emerging Role of Technology in Health Education for Youth

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Individuals or groups’ right to control the flow of sensitive information about themselves. Learn more in: Privacy-Preserving Data Mining

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Medical privacy or health privacy is the practice of maintaining the security and confidentiality of patient records. It involves both the conversational discretion of health care providers and the security of medical records. Learn more in: Improving Patient Care With Telemedicine Technology

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Keeping information secret from all but those who are authorized to see it. The ability of individual to control the access others have to personal information about them and the expectation of anonymity, fairness and confidentiality. Learn more in: Security and Privacy on Personalized Multi-Agent System

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The ability of an individual or group to not disclose information about themselves. Learn more in: Spyware

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The claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others ( Westin, 1967 ). Learn more in: E-Technology Challenges to Information Privacy

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The ability of individuals or groups to control the use of personal information about themselves or to keep such information in a defined space. Learn more in: Technology Assessment of Information and Communication Technologies

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A state of being apart from monitoring. Learn more in: An Overview on Protecting User Private-Attribute Information on Social Networks

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The claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others. Learn more in: Privacy Compliance Requirements in Workflow Environments

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The right of individuals for their information to be kept secure and confidential. Information is only disclosed when appropriate to do so such as providing ongoing care or when lawfully required. Learn more in: Evolution of the Health Record as a Communication Tool to Support Patient Safety

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An individual's right to control how and to what extent information about him or her may be shared and acted upon by others. Learn more in: Ambiguities in the Privacy Policies of Common Health and Fitness Apps

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One of the most frequently used definitions of privacy by Alan Westin (1970) states: “Privacy is the claim of individuals to determine for themselves when, how and to what extent information about themselves is communicated to others.” This definition is applicable to many information technological contexts. One of the key elements of privacy is its dialectic nature. Learn more in: Theory and Application of the Privacy Regulation Model

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Privacy is the right of individuals to be left alone and to exercise control over one’s personal information. Privacy includes information privacy which represents the way in which organizations handle an individual’s personal information. Learn more in: Shaping Regulation in the Australian Mobile Industry

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Ability of an individual/group of people to be able to hide significant information about themselves while revealing minimal and selective information required. Learn more in: Trust Concerns of the Customers in E-Commerce Market Space by Indian Customers

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Privacy is a concept that varies from person to person and in which individuals are not to specify its borders. Rather it is determined by socio-cultural sphere as well. Learn more in: Is Somebody Spying on Us?: Social Media Users' Privacy Awareness

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An individual's right to control how and to what extent information about him or her may be shared and acted upon by others. Learn more in: Ethical Ambiguities in the Privacy Policies of Mobile Health and Fitness Applications

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Is a core human value as people choose what information to share with whom and like to protect some parts of their selves in secrecy. Protecting people’s privacy is a codified virtue around the world to uphold the individual’s dignity. Learn more in: A Utility Theory of Privacy and Information Sharing

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The right of individuals to control or influence what information related to them may be collected and stored, by whom, and to whom that information may be disclosed. Learn more in: Privacy in the Digital World

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“The claim of an individual to determine what information about himself or herself should be known to others.” (Westin, 2003). Learn more in: Privacy Concerns for Web Logging Data

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The right of individuals to protect their ability to selectively reveal information about themselves so as to negotiate social relationships most advantageous to them. Learn more in: Tailoring Privacy-Aware Trustworthy Cooperating Smart Spaces for University Environments

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Privacy is a term that describe people’s right to be let alone, or their freedom from outside interference or intrusion without their prior consent. Learn more in: Privacy Concerns in the VR and AR Applications in Creative Cultural Industries: A Text Mining Study

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An individual’s right to safeguard personal information in accordance with law and regulations. Learn more in: Big Data Security Management

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The right of an individual to be secure from unauthorized access, disclosure and being able to control information about oneself that is contained in different documents/files, databases or Web-pages. Learn more in: Privacy, Trust, and Business Ethics for Mobile Business Social Networks

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Refers to the right to be let alone, or freedom from interference or intrusion. Learn more in: Ethics of Social Media Research

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The ability of keeping secret someone’s identity, resources, or actions. It is realized by anonymity and pseudonymity. Learn more in: Secure Routing with Reputation in MANET

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Right of the individual to make decisions, to have his own personal spaces, to forbid further communication of observable events, and to limit access to personal information Learn more in: Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Biometrics

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The protection of personal data and information from unauthorized collection and use Learn more in: M-Learning: Exploring the Use of Mobile Devices and Social Media

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Various techniques used to protect private data. Learn more in: Security and Privacy Issues in IoT: A Platform for Fog Computing

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The protection of sensitive personal information that customers provide during the communications transaction. Learn more in: Spotted: Connecting People, Locations, and Real-World Events in a Cellular Network

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As a legal concept is a personnel right inherent to human dignity. Includes intimacy, private life, honor people. Consequently individuals have the right to decide which personal information is kept under his sole control, as they have the right to communicate to whom, when, where and under what conditions personal information should be disclosed. Learn more in: DNA Databases for Criminal Investigation

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Is not the same as being alone; it is about one’s “zone of inaccessibility” or “right to be left alone”. Intruding into that zone is a violation of privacy and ignoring that right is an act of bullying, both are subject criminal charges. Learn more in: Hexa-Dimension Metric, Ethical Matrix, and Cybersecurity

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Privacy is the right of an entity - in this context usually a natural person - to decide when and on what terms its attributes should be revealed. In an IDM context, privacy is mostly used as a synonym of informational privacy, i.e., the interest of a natural person to control, or at least significantly influence the handling of data about themselves, also taking into account the nature of the applicable attributes and the entity in charge of data management. Learn more in: An Interoperable Cross-Context Architecture to Manage Distributed Personal E-Health Information

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The ability to have personal information used appropriately and without ongoing observation. Learn more in: Advances in Information, Security, Privacy & Ethics: Use of Cloud Computing For Education

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Means a personnel right inherent to human dignity. Includes intimacy, private life and honor people. Consequently individuals have the right to informational self-determination, that is, individuals have the right to determine and control the use of your personal data. Learn more in: Opportunities and Challenges for Electronic Health Record: Concepts, Costs, Benefits, and Regulation

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The right of an individual to decide on the time (when), the way (how), and the extent to which information about them can be shared/communicated with others. The notion of privacy varies among different countries, cultures, and jurisdictions. Learn more in: Middleware for Preserving Privacy in Big Data

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Privacy is the desire of individuals to control their personal information. Generally, in the SDL literature, it relates to the identity of an individual, while confidentiality relates to specific information about the individual (such as salary). Learn more in: Privacy-Preserving Estimation

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The state in which an individual is able to hold back information so that it will not leak into public. Learn more in: Anonymity and Pseudonymity in Data-Driven Science

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The state of being free of infringement. Learn more in: Privacy, Security, and Identity Theft Protection: Advances and Trends

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As fundamental human rights, encompasses both the right for the individual to control some aspects of his personality he projects on the world, and a right to freely develop his personality without excessive interference by the State or by others in matters that are of his exclusive concern. Learn more in: Which Rights for Which Subjects? Genetic Confidentiality and Privacy in the Post-Genomic Era

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The ability of an individual or group to control or conceal information about themselves. Learn more in: Strategic Planning for Cloud Computing Adoption in STEM Education: Finding Best Practice Solutions

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This is the right of individuals to keep personal information private. Regulation, law and constitution regulate the access to the data collected by government about citizens. The citizen also has the right to know about the information and data collected by the government about the citizen. Learn more in: Cyber Crimes: Types, Sizes, Defence Mechanism, and Risk Mitigation

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Being free from observation or intrusion Learn more in: The Criticality of an ICT Ethics Backbone for Transformation and Social Equality in E-Learning

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The right to be secluded from the presence or view of others. Learn more in: Agent-Based Social Networks

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Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share common themes. When something is private to a person, it usually means that something is inherently special or sensitive to them. The domain of privacy partially overlaps with security (confidentiality), which can include the concepts of appropriate use, as well as protection of information. Privacy may also take the form of bodily integrity. Privacy may be voluntarily sacrificed, normally in exchange for perceived benefits and very often with specific dangers and losses, although this is a very strategic view of human relationships. Learn more in: Voyeurism in Social Networks and Changing the Perception of Privacy on the Example of Instagram

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According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, privacy is defined as “the quality or state of being apart from company or observation.” One feels that privacy is needed when one feels that there is something about oneself that needs to be kept away from the eyes of others. The chapter develops the notion of ‘group privacy,’ which is the privacy belonging to a group of individuals, such as ethnic groups or close communities or the family, rather than to particular individuals. Learn more in: Privacy, Contingency, Identity, and the Group

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A state of being free from observance or disturbance. Learn more in: Dataveillance in the Workplace: Privacy Threat or Market Imperative?

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A condition where one’s identity is concealed from others. Learn more in: A Safer Place for Women: Online Education

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It is the right to keep personal information private and to a private life itself. Learn more in: The Gatekeepers of Cyberspace: Surveillance, Control, and Internet Regulation in Brazil

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The claim of individuals, groups or institutions to determine for themselves when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated to others. Learn more in: Privacy Issues in Public Web Sites

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The ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. Learn more in: Secure Architecture for Cloud Environment

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The ability to prevent the unlawful or unethical use of information or data. Learn more in: Security Policy Issues in Internet Banking in Malaysia

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The right of individuals, in the exercise of their autonomy, to control access to their private personal information by others. Learn more in: Impact of Information Technology on Patient Confidentiality Rights: A Perspective

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Privacy is defined as an individual’s right to be left alone, free from Learn more in: Understanding Adverse Effects of E-Commerce

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Refers to the right to be let alone, or freedom from interference or intrusion. Learn more in: Social Media as Mirror of Society

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It ensures that IoT system will follow the rules and policies of privacy and allows the users to oversight the important information and data. Learn more in: Internet of Things: Architecture, Challenges, and Future Directions

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Generally, privacy refers to a living concept made out of continuous personal boundary negotiations with the surrounding ethical environment; it is an intrinsic part of a person's identity and integrity. In the context of LA, privacy is defined as the regulation of how personal digital information is being observed by the self or distributed to other observers. Learn more in: Ethics in Predictive Learning Analytics: An Empirical Case Study on Students Perceptions in a Northern Irish University

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