How is Privacy Different from Information Security?

• information security and privacy are closely related, but different
• Privacy is the right to control the use and disclosure of personal information
• information security is the process used to keep data private

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The U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) governs access to public records of the U.S. federal government.

• Most states have similar laws for the public records of state government and agencies.
• often are called sunshine laws because they shine light onto the inner workings of government agencies

• information being secure ≠ private
• information collected in privacy-protected ways ≠ secure
• privacy cannot exist in information systems without security