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Information privacy, or data privacy is the relationship between collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. Privacy concerns exist wherever personally identifiable information is collected and stored – in digital form or otherwise. Improper or non existent disclosure control can be the root cause for privacy issues. Data privacy issues can arise in response to information from a wide range of sources,

Privacy International (PI) is a UK based non profit organisation formed in 1990, as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI has organised campaigns and initiatives in more than fifty countries and is based in London, UK. During 1990, in response to increasing awareness about the globalisation of surveillance, more than a hundred privacy experts and human rights organizations from forty countries took steps to form an international organization for

Internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, providing to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet. Privacy can entail both Personally Identifying Information (PII) or non PII information such as a site visitor's behavior on a website. PII refers to any information that can be used to identify an individual. For example, age and physical address alone could identify who an individual is without