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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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breach notification

/briːtʃ ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The seventy-two-hour clock that starts the moment someone decides whether it counts as a breach.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The obligation to inform regulators and affected individuals of a personal-data breach within a defined window.

Evidence

See also

breach response planA binder, last opened during the tabletop exercise, that names a coordinator who left in the spring.
data discoveryThe tool whose first scan is reclassified internally as an incident.
regulatory reportingThe one report whose definition of 'customer' is finally agreed, because the penalty for drift is statutory.