Data privacy is the protection of personal data from those who should not have access to it and the ability of individuals to determine who can access their personal information

Data Privacy is important because for individuals to be willing to participate in online activities, they must feel that their personal data will be handled with care. Businesses use data protection practices as a way to demonstrate to customers and users that they deserve to be trusted

Privacy by design is an approach to systems engineering initially developed by Ann Cavoukian and formalized in a joint report on privacy-enhancing technologies by a joint team of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (Canada), the Dutch Data Protection Authority, and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research in 1995.

Privacy by design calls for privacy to be taken into account throughout the whole engineering process. The concept is an example of value sensitive design, i.e., taking human values into account in a well-defined manner throughout the process.

Privacy by design is based on seven “foundational principles”:

• Proactive not reactive; preventive not remedial
• Privacy as the default setting
• Privacy embedded into design
• Full functionality – positive-sum, not zero-sum
• End-to-end security – full lifecycle protection
• Visibility and transparency – keep it open
• Respect for user privacy – keep it user-centric

From point of view of access Data protection is about securing data against unauthorized access. Data privacy is about authorized access — who has it and who defines it.

From subjective perspective  data protection is essentially a technical issue, whereas data privacy is a legal one.

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