European Union Terms - P
passenger name record (PNR) - (data records associated with an individual plane or train passenger)
Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) - (2017 EU initiative providing a framework and process to enhance defense cooperation among the member states choosing to participate in it)
Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) - (2019 Estonian law providing regulatory oversight of data collection and use)
Personal Information Inventory (PII) - (a documented repository of the personal data assets collected, derived, processed, stored, or otherwise handled by an enterprise)
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) - (Canadian law governing the private sector collection, storage, and use of personal information)
personally identifiable information (PII) - (any information that can be used to establish a link between the information and the natural person to whom such information related, or that is, or might be, directly or indirectly linked to a natural person)
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) - (cloud service in which the cloud providers deliver a computing platform, typically including an operating system, database, and Web server and Web developers build and publish Web applications using the computing platform.)
Police and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters (PJCC) - (EU policy with the objective of fostering international cooperation in criminal matters, facilitating mutual recognition of judgments, and police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters)
pretty good privacy (PGP) - (a data encryption/decryption program often used for e-mail and file storage which uses a basic encryption system)
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) - (regulations enacted in the UK governing the use of cookies and general marketing communications requiring consent prior to sending)
privacy enhancing technologies (PET) - (technological tools, such as encryption and anonymization, which make it difficult to identify individuals)
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) - (an analysis of how information is processed to ensure the processing conforms to all applicable legal, regulatory, and policy requirements)
Privacy Incident Response Team (PIRT) - (organizational group with oversight of privacy incident reponse to breaches, losses, unauthorized access to, or misuse of personal information and efforts to mitigate damages)
Privacy Management Reference Model and Methodology (PMRM) - (privacy standards framework promulgated by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards))
Privacy Protection Act (PPA) - (U.S. federal law enacted in 1980 to protect journalists and newsrooms from searches by government officials)
Privacy Risk Assessment Methodology (PRAM) - (framework/guidance for analyzing organizational privacy risk, provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))
private sector involvement (PSI) - (principle/requirement that the interests of EU member states receiving financial support in times of crisis had to be subordinated to debt restructuring, involving losses for private creditors)
Privileged Access Management (PAM) - (system providing a set of tools used to secure, authorize, and monitor accounts and processes based on different levels of privilege or access)
public law (PL) - (EU laws of general application, as opposed to laws passed by EU member states which apply only to citizens of those states)