Definitions[]
General[]
Data is
| “ | a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts, computer software, computer programs or instructions. Data may be in any form, in storage media, or as stored in the memory of the computer or in transit or presented on a display device.[1] | ” |
| “ | [f]actual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions. In Computer Science, numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.[2] | ” |
| “ | [r]e-interpretable representation of information in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing.[3] | ” |
Data is "[i]nert symbols, signs, descriptions, or measures; elements of information."[4]
European Union[]
Data is
| “ | traffic data and location data and the related data necessary to identify the subscriber or user.[5] | ” |
Ireland[]
Data is "automated and manual data."[6]
Military[]
Data is a
| “ | representation of facts, concepts, or instructions in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing by humans or by automatic means. Any representations such as characters or analog quantities to which meaning is or might be assigned.[7] | ” |
United Kingdom[]
Data means
| “ | information which —
(a) is being processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose, (b) is recorded with the intention that it should be processed by means of such equipment, (c) is recorded as part of a relevant filing system or with the intention that it should form part of a relevant filing system, (d) does not fall within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) but forms part of an accessible record as defined by section 68, or (e) is recorded information held by a public authority and does not fall within any of paragraphs (a) to (d).[8] |
” |
United States[]
Data is
| “ | [r]ecorded information, regardless of form or the media on which it may be recorded. The term includes technical data and computer software. It does not include information incidental to contract administration, such as financial, administrative, cost or pricing, or management information.[9] | ” |
Overview[]
"Data can be processed by humans or by automatic means."[10]
References[]
- ↑ Cal. Penal C. §502.
- ↑ Office of Management and Budget, Coordination of Geographic Information and Related Spatial Data Activities OMB Circular No. A-16, App. D (Rev. Aug. 19, 2002) (full-text).
- ↑ Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems, at 8.
- ↑ Guide to Conducting Privacy Impact Assessments for State, Local, and Tribal Justice Entities, at 36.
- ↑ Data Retention Directive, art. 2a.
- ↑ Data Protection Act 2003 (Ireland).
- ↑ U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Pub. 1–02: DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms (Nov. 8, 2010, as amended through May 15, 2011) (full-text).
- ↑ U.K. Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003.
- ↑ FAR Clause 52.227-14.
- ↑ Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems, at 8.
See also[]
- Account data
- Accurate data
- Activation data
- Active data collection
- Address data
- Administrative data
- Adversary data
- Aggregated data
- Alphanumeric data
- Analog data
- Anonymized data
- Archival data
- Attribute data
- Audit data
- Back-up data
- Behavioral data
- Bibliometric data
- Big data
- Biographic data
- Biological data
- Biometric data
- Bulk data
- Business data
- Cadastral data
- Cardholder data
- Cartographic data
- Census data
- Characteristics & performance data
- Clean data
- Clickstream data
- Clinical data
- Clutter data
- Computational data
- Computer data
- Confidential data
- Consumer data
- Content data
- Contextual data
- Continuous data
- Core data
- Core‐reference data
- Corporate data
- Cost/pricing data
- Customer data
- Customer insight data
- Dark data
- Data access
- Data accuracy
- Data acquisition
- Data aggregation
- Data analysis
- Data analytics
- Data anonymization
- Data at rest
- Data attribute
- Data authentication
- Data author
- Data bank
- Data base
- Data block
- Data breach
- Data breach analysis
- Data breach notification laws
- Data broker
- Data call
- Data capture
- Data center
- Data collection
- Data collector
- Data commons
- Data communication
- Data communications
- Data compaction
- Data component
- Data compression
- Data confidentiality
- Data consistency
- Data controller
- Data conversion
- Data corruption
- Data creep
- Data curation
- Data decay
- Data deduplication
- Data deluge
- Data destruction
- Data device
- Data dictionary
- Data distillation
- Data dump
- Data element
- Data encryption
- Data entry
- Data entry field
- Data exchange
- Data exploitation
- Data extraction
- Data feed
- Data field
- Data file
- Data flow
- Data format
- Data fragmentation
- Data furnace
- Data fusion
- Data generation
- Data governance
- Data granularity
- Data harmonization
- Data historian
- Data in motion
- Data in processing
- Data independence
- Data injection
- Data integration
- Data integrity
- Data intelligibility
- Data interpretation
- Data item
- Data key
- Data item
- Data link
- Data Link Layer
- Data loss
- Data management
- Data manager
- Data mapping
- Data message
- Data migration
- Data minimization
- Data mining
- Data mirroring
- Data network
- Data object
- Data organization
- Data origin authentication
- Data owner
- Data pedigree
- Data processing
- Data provenance
- Data packet
- Data pass transaction
- Data path
- Data portability
- Data preservation
- Data privacy
- Data processor
- Data profiling
- Data protection
- Data provenance
- Data quality
- Data Quality Principle
- Data rate
- Data re-identification
- Data readability
- Data record
- Data recovery
- Data reduction
- Data reliability
- Data replication
- Data repository
- Data resource
- Data restoration
- Data retention
- Data retrievability
- Data reuse
- Data retrieval
- Data rights
- Data roaming
- Data science
- Data scientist
- Data security
- Data sequencing
- Data set
- Data sharing
- Data signal
- Data signaling rate
- Data sink
- Data speed
- Data source
- Data sovereignty
- Data spill
- Data standard
- Data standardization
- Data steward
- Data storage
- Data stream
- Data structure
- Data subject
- Data surveillance
- Data synchronization
- Data system
- Data theft
- Data theme
- Data throughput
- Data traffic
- Data trail
- Data transfer
- Data transfer rate
- Data transmission
- Data transport
- Data type
- Data user
- Data validation
- Data verification
- Data visualization
- Data warehouse
- Data warehousing
- Data write
- Data-centric
- Data-driven attack
- Database
- Database administrator
- Database application
- Database engineering
- Database integration
- Database management system
- Datafication
- Dataveillance
- Demographic data
- Derived data
- Digital aerial data
- Digital data
- Directly identifiable data
- Discrete data
- Distributed data
- Dynamic data
- Electronic data
- Employee data
- Encoded data
- Encrypted data
- Evaluated data
- Exhaust data
- Experimental data
- False data
- Found data
- Foundation data
- Framework data
- Full and open exchange of data
- Genetic data
- Geodata
- Geodetic data
- Geographic data
- Geographic information system data
- Geolocation data
- Geophysical data
- Geospatial data
- Ground-referenced data
- Health data
- Heterogeneous data
- Hidden dataa
- Identity history data
- Image data
- Inactive data
- Incident data
- Inferred data
- Information
- Input data
- Integrity-protected data
- Intermediate data
- Land parcel data
- Latent data
- Linked data
- Littoral data
- Local data
- Location data
- Logical data independence
- Macrodata
- Magnetic stripe data
- Malformed data
- Master data
- Measured data
- Metadata
- Network data
- Non-sensitive data
- Numeric data
- Numerical data
- Objective data
- Obscured data
- Observational data
- Observed data
- Oceanographic data
- Open data
- Open government data
- Operational data
- Orphaned data
- Output data
- Overhead data
- Parametric data
- Perishable data
- Persistent data
- Personal data
- Physical data independence
- PNR data
- Positional data
- Preference data
- Preservation data
- Primary data
- Privacy data
- Probative data
- Property data
- Proprietary technology data
- Pseudonymized data
- Pseudonymous data
- Psychographic data
- Public data
- Qualitative data
- Quantitative data
- Raster data
- Raw data
- Raw structured data
- Raw unstructured data
- Real data
- Reconnaissance data
- Reference data
- Repudiation of data
- Residual data
- Restricted data
- Risk data
- Scanner data
- Secondary data
- Seismological data
- Sensed data
- Sensitive data
- Sensor data
- Signed data
- Source data
- Spectral data
- Standard data
- Statistical data
- Stored data
- Stream data
- Structured data
- Subscription data
- Surveillance data
- Tabular data
- Tactical data
- Technical data
- Template data
- Temporal data
- Temporary data
- Test data
- Textual data
- Threat data
- Toponymic data
- Traffic data
- Transaction data
- Unclassified data
- Unclassified technical data
- Unstructured data
- Validated data
- View data
- Verified data
- Volatile data