Data fiduciary
An organisation entrusted with collecting and handling someone's personal data responsibly.
For example
Your bank, a food-delivery app or your school, when they handle your details.
Learn it through a story
- The Data Privacy Clause Nobody Reads (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 8)
Related terms
- Dark pattern A design built on purpose to push you toward one choice, like a huge "Allow All" button.
- DAST Dynamic application security testing, probing a running application like an external attacker would.
- Data collection The gathering of information about how you use an app.
- Data leakage When an AI reveals private information it saw in training or in a chat.
- Data minimisation Collecting only the data actually needed for a service to function.
- Data poisoning Adding bad examples to training data to change what an AI learns.