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Data terms without the fog.
Search short, plain-English definitions for the language used by data brokers, privacy services, advertisers, security teams and AI companies.
- Data broker
- A company that collects, combines, licenses or sells information about people, often without a direct customer relationship with them.
- Data exposure
- Personal information that is publicly reachable, commercially available or accessible beyond the audience you intended.
- Data inference
- A conclusion about you produced from other signals rather than a fact you directly supplied.
- Data provenance
- Information about where data came from, how it changed and which permissions or conditions apply to its use.
- Data wellness
- The continuing practice of understanding, correcting, reducing and controlling personal information connected to you.
- Deletion
- A request or process that removes certain information from a specific company or service.
- Permissioned data
- Information used for a stated purpose under a permission the person can understand.
- Personal-data profile
- A constructed record that may combine facts, behavior, public information, purchased information and guesses about a person.
- Verification
- A process for checking that information is accurate and connected to the right person.
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Cluzy’s ruleIf a term hides who collected the data, what it means or what happens next, the explanation is incomplete.