Data Subject

An acronym for Data Leak Prevention or Data Loss Prevention. A type of security that prevents sensitive data, usually files, from being shared outside the organization or to unauthorized individuals within the organization. This is done usually through policies that encrypt data or control sharing settings.

Data that describes other data. For databases, metadata describes properties of the data store itself, as well as the definition of the schema.

A legal term referring to laws and regulations aimed at protecting the personal data of individuals and determining that data’s fair use.