Whois & Analysis for privo.com

Digital privacy is a trending social concern (see for example the TED talk by Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley subsequent to the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures which cast a shadow over the privacy of cloud storage and social media.

While it is concerned with the privacy of digital information in general, in many contexts it specifically references information concerning personal identity shared over public networks.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation by which the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals within the European Union (EU).

It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU.

The primary objectives of the GDPR are to give citizens back control of their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.

When the GDPR takes effect it will replace the data protection directive (officially Directive 95/46/EC) from 1995.

The regulation was adopted on 27 April 2016.

It applies from 25 May 2018 after a two-year transition period and, unlike a directive, it does not require any enabling legislation to be passed by national governments.

Internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via of the Internet.

Internet privacy is a subset of data privacy.

Privacy concerns have been articulated from the beginnings of large scale computer sharing.

Personally identifiable information (PII), or sensitive personal information (SPI), as used in information security and privacy laws, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.

The abbreviation PII is widely accepted in the U.S. context, but the phrase it abbreviates has four common variants based on personal / personally, and identifiable / identifying.

Not all are equivalent, and for legal purposes the effective definitions vary depending on the jurisdiction and the purposes for which the term is being used.

(In other countries with privacy protection laws derived from the OECD privacy principles, the term used is more often "personal information", which may be somewhat broader: in Australia's Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) "personal information" also includes information from which the person's identity is "reasonably ascertainable", potentially covering some information not covered by PII).

PRIVO is a safe harbor and identity and consent service provider based in McLean, Virginia, US.

PRIVO enables websites, apps, games and other online services to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) when they interact with and market to young children.

It has been Federal Trade Commission approved.