Data Governance and Quality Flashcards
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What is a data dictionary?
Answer: A centralized repository documenting data elements, definitions, formats, and relationships
A data dictionary documents metadata about data elements including field names, data types, definitions, acceptable values, and relationships.
What is the 'right to be forgotten' in data governance?
Answer: A legal right for individuals to request deletion of their personal data from an organization's systems
The right to be forgotten (right to erasure) allows individuals to request that organizations delete their personal data, recognized under GDPR and similar regulations.
What is data tokenization?
Answer: Replacing sensitive data with non-sensitive placeholder tokens while preserving format
Tokenization substitutes sensitive data (like credit card numbers) with non-sensitive tokens that have no exploitable value if intercepted.
What is a data breach in the context of compliance?
Answer: An unauthorized access or exposure of protected, sensitive, or confidential data
A data breach is a security incident where unauthorized individuals access, steal, or expose confidential or protected data.
What is the purpose of data profiling?
Answer: Analyzing datasets to understand structure, content, quality, and relationships
Data profiling examines dataset characteristics including structure, content, quality, completeness, and statistical properties to understand the data before use.
What does 'data sovereignty' mean?
Answer: The concept that data is subject to the laws of the country where it is stored or collected
Data sovereignty means data is governed by the laws and regulations of the country in which it is physically located or collected.