Privacy Ontology

1. Glossary

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Using consistent and precise language is essential to any discussion. The scope of this working group is to help create or identify a working privacy ontology to which others may reference.

We are impressed with the Microformats approach, and may adopt something similar. In the meantime, we'll start with a glossary to get us under way:

Glossary

Address:
Affiliation/ Affiliated:
Aggregation:
Appropriation:
Authorization:
Behavioral Advertising:
Biometric Information:
Breach:
Choice:
Confidential Information:
Consent:
Control:
Customer:
Commercial Exploitation:
Credit Information:

Data Profile/Profiling:

Data Retention Policy:
Data Steward/ Data "Owner":
Data Subject:
Decisional Interference:
Deep Packet Inspection:
Directory Information:
Disclaim:
Disclosure:
Dissemination:
Distortion:
Email Address:
Exposure:
Financial Information:
Identification:
Identity Theft:
Image:
Impersonation:
Indemnify:

Information: Data of any kind, in any format, stored in any medium, knowable or unknowable by a human.

Insure:
Intrusion:
Industry Standard:
Invasion:
Medical Information:
Name:
Objective Harm:
Opt-In:
Opt-Out:

Personal Information: Information about the individual; information which which the data steward is capable of attributing to the individual at any time, regardless of whether the data steward subsequently de-identifies the information for other use.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII):
Phone Number:
Physical Location Information:
Privacy:
Privacy Contract:
Privacy Policy:
Purchase Information:
Right to Amend:
Right to Correct:
Right to Update:
Right to View:
Secondary Use:
Security, Physical:
Security, Technological:
Sensitive Information:
Social Engineering:
Social Security Number:
Storage, Physical:
Subjective Harm:
Third Party:
Unauthorized Party: