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Sometimes referred to as “Big Blue” IBM is a multinational corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. It manufactures computer hardware and software and provides information technology and services.
In a privacy management environment, a logical statement that identifies how personally identifiable information (PII) can be used. A statement identifies PII types, the groups that can access the PII types, the purposes for which the PII types can be used, and conditions that might apply to the use of the PII. For example, a privacy policy might include the following usage statement: "Doctors (group) can access medical records (PII type) for diagnosis and treatment (purpose)." See also condition rule.
Industry:Software
In a privacy management environment, an expression that (a) represents an individual's choice to opt in or opt out of a specified group or purpose or (b) represents another condition, such as a legal restriction on the use of PII. See also condition rule.
Industry:Software
In a privacy management environment, an individual or organization, or an agent acting on behalf of an individual or organization, that collects privacy-sensitive information from a PII owner and then uses that information in accordance with the privacy policies. See also PII owner.
Industry:Software
In a privacy management environment, an individual with whom privacy-sensitive information is associated. As the owner of PII, the individual might have the legal right to limit the propagation of the privacy-sensitive information within the organization or to other organizations and individuals. See also personally identifiable information, PII user.
Industry:Software
In a privacy management environment, an organization's stated position on how it intends to use the privacy-sensitive information that it collects. A privacy policy constitutes an agreement between an organization and the owners of personally identifiable information (PII) that the organization collects. See also opt in, opt out, P3P privacy policy.
Industry:Software
In a privacy management environment, data elements that are associated with a specific individual and that can be accessed and used in such a way that the identity of the individual who submitted the PII is known. PII can be a single point of data, such as political party affiliation, or several points of data that are combined, such as names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers. To maintain their privacy, individuals who submit PII to an organization want to limit the propagation of that PII to other individuals within the organization or to other organizations. Some PII data might be privacy-sensitive. The use of privacy-sensitive PII might be governed by privacy legislation or an organization's privacy policy. See also PII owner, privacy-sensitive information.
Industry:Software
In a privacy management environment, information that is classified for protection from general and unauthorized use. In the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification, privacy-sensitive information is referred to as personally identifiable information (PII). See also personally identifiable information, Platform for Privacy Preferences.
Industry:Software
In a privacy policy, a representation of an individual's implicit or explicit choice to accept the intended use of the individual's privacy-sensitive information. See also opt out, privacy policy.
Industry:Software
In a privacy policy, a representation of an individual's implicit or explicit choice to decline the intended use of the individual's privacy-sensitive information. See also opt in, privacy policy.
Industry:Software
In a relational database, a key that consists of two or more attributes in a relation.
Industry:Software
