Data privacy focuses on protecting which aspect?

• A. Ensuring data is always accessible during outages
• B. Preventing data loss due to hardware failures
• C. Protecting the privacy of the data located in a database
• D. Controlling who may access data through role-based access

Answer: (C)

Data privacy is about keeping information confidential and ensuring that data, especially personal or sensitive data stored in a database, is viewed and used only by authorized people. It involves safeguards like encryption, access controls, data minimization, and consent management to prevent unauthorized disclosure. The other ideas address different goals: availability focuses on keeping systems accessible during outages, hardware failure protection targets preventing data loss, and while restricting who can view data (through access controls) helps privacy, privacy itself is about maintaining confidentiality. So protecting the privacy of the data located in a database best captures the concept.