What is privacy and what are the major privacy laws in cybersecurity?
Privacy laws dictate the applicability of end user consent notices when collecting, analyzing, sharing, storing, and disposing of information. It has an increasingly large areas of concerns to attempt to address, including identification systems (biometrics scanners), domestic surveillance systems, social networking sites, video surveillance systems (VSS), DNA databases, and gate or airport body scanners. Moreover, technological advances will continue to affect privacy laws to dynamically adapt and change at an alarming pace in line with consequence of the Internet, cryptography and other innovations that may improve privacy.
The right to privacy has been hotly contested issue around the world for many years. As a reflection of these concerns, the following are some of the famous privacy laws in the industry:
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018
- Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
- More