Medical Terms - G
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - (European Union (EU) law, effective in May 2018, designed to provide greater privacy rights and protections to individuals regarding the collection and use of data and to limit organizational control of data collected about individuals)
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) - (Standards, conventions, and rules considered as norms, or accepted standards, by the accounting profession, in recording and summarizing transactions, and in the preparation of financial statements.)
Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) - (broad rules and guidelines which audit firms must follow in preparing for and performing audits of client financial statements)
Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP) - (set of principles considered essential to privacy - developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) - consists of one overall privacy objective supported by 10 principles)
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) - (federal law probiting the use of genetic information for purposes of granting or denying health insurance coverage and for purposes of employment)
Good Clinical Research Practice (GCP) - (a set of guidelines that provides public assurance that the rights, safety, and well-being of research subjects are protected and respected)
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA/GLB) - (Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999) (federal law which allowed consolidation in the financial services industry, but which also added rules designed to provide additional protection for consumer financial information - added a 1) Financial Privacy Rule, 2) Safeguard Rule, and 3) Pretexting Rule)