Data Privacy: The relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, adn the legal and political issues surrounding them.
Consent: Any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which they signify agreement to the processing of personal data relating to them.
Personal Data: Any information relating to an identifiable natural person e.g. name, ID number, or to one or more factors specific to the indentity of that person.
Processing: Any operation performed on personal data, such as collection, storage, alteration, retrieval, erasure, or destruction
Regulation: A rule made and maintained by an authority across the EU.
Directive: A rule made and maintained by an authority for EU countries to enact.