The data privacy industry is full of acronyms. In addition to general data privacy industry acronyms like PII for personally identifiable information, there are many regulation-specific terms, as well.
For example, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (EU) has terms like EDPS for European Data Protection Supervisor, while the United States has terms like COPPA for the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. There are also technological acronyms such as URL for uniform resource locator or advertising acronyms like DSP for demand side platform, which many data privacy professionals will encounter in their day-to-day work.
List of common data privacy acronyms
Below is a list of common acronyms in alphabetical order that data privacy professionals may come across in their work.
The data privacy field is constantly changing with new regulations coming into force and new technologies emerging to support data privacy and related professionals. This list will be periodically updated to reflect new acronyms as they become available.