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data protections

data protections is the plural of data protection.

Meaning of data protection

Noun

data protection (usually uncountable, plural data protections)

  1. (attributive, often, usually) The act or process of protecting data from unauthorized use by ensuring security and privacy through consciously chosen and enforced rules and methods.
    • The links were mostly to newspaper articles and public records, and Google refused to comply, but with the “right to be forgotten” enshrined as a key objective of the European Union’s 2011 data protection strategy, more and bigger cases are likely to follow.2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist
    Synonyms:
    data privacy
  2. (capitalized, often, usually) The business function (team, department, squad, etc) that leads others in their performance of this act or process.
    • This proposal has to be cleared by Legal, Human Resources, and Data Protection before it can proceed further.

Questions about data protections

What is data protections the plural of?
Data protections is the plural of data protection.

Words near data protections in the dictionary

  1. data privacy
  2. data processing
  3. data processing machine
  4. data processing machines
  5. data protection
  6. data protections
  7. data quality
  8. data race
  9. data races
  10. data rate
  11. data rates

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