Video: What Is Data Protection?

An explanatory video on a key legal protection for privacy, and yet poorly understood.

Video

Post date

14th February 2018

Language English

Key points

Data protection laws protect personal data.
Under these laws you are given rights.
Companies and governments must protect your data in accordance with law.

Media type

Explanatory

Short

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Explainers

Our fight

Challenging Corporate Data Exploitation

Our campaign

Ask Your MP to Improve the UK's Data Protection Bill!

Enhancing Data Protection Standards

What PI is calling for

Companies must protect privacy by design, not exploit people and their data.

PI challenges companies to change their behaviours.

Technologies, laws, and policies must contain modern safeguards to protect people from exploitation.

PI seeks protections for everyone

People must be protected everywhere, under a universal rights framework.

PI has led the push for privacy to be recognised globally.

Data should be protected

Data should be protected from access by persons who are not the user.

Limit data analysis by design

As nearly every human interaction now generates some form of data, systems should be designed to limit the invasiveness of data analysis by all parties in the transaction and networking.

We may challenge consequential decisions

Individuals should be able to know about, understand, question and challenge consequential decisions that are made about them and their environment. This means that controllers too should have an insight into and control over this processing.