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Prithvivallabh

Prithvivallabh (પૃથ્વીવલ્લભ) is a landmark Gujarati historical novel by K. M. Munshi, first published around 1921, telling of king Munj's fatal conflict with the Chalukya king Tailap.

Priti Patel

Priti Patel, British Conservative MP for Witham since 2010 and Home Secretary 2019-2022 under Boris Johnson; architect of the Rwanda asylum scheme, later Shadow Foreign Secretary 2024-2026.

Pritilata Waddedar (প্রীতিলতা ওয়াদ্দেদার)

Pritilata Waddedar (প্রীতিলতা ওয়াদ্দেদার), 1911–1932, Bengali revolutionary, Bethune College philosophy graduate, and first woman member of Surya Sen's Chittagong group; led the 1932 Pahartali European Club raid and died by cyanide at 23.

Pritom Hasan

Pritom Hasan (প্রীতম হাসান) is a Bangladeshi singer, composer, and music director from Dhaka who rose to fame with the 2016 viral hit "Local Bus".

Pritzker Architecture Prize

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an annual international award honoring a living architect's body of built work, founded in 1979 by the Pritzker family through their Hyatt Foundation and often called architecture's Nobel.

Pritzker family

The Pritzker family is a Chicago-based American business dynasty that built one of the largest private fortunes in the United States through the Hyatt hotel chain.

Privacera

Privacera is a data security and governance company founded in 2016 in Fremont, California, by Apache Ranger creators Balaji Ganesan and Don Bosco Durai, offering multi-cloud access governance and AI governance (PAIG, Trust3 AI).

Privacy

Privacy: the right or condition of controlling access to oneself and one's personal information, also called the right to be let alone. Defined by Warren and Brandeis (1890), a human right under UDHR Article 12, and regulated today through laws such as the EU GDPR.

Privacy amplification

Privacy amplification is a technique that strengthens a weak privacy guarantee by randomizing how inputs or outputs reach an adversary, in cryptography and differential privacy.

Privacy by Design

Privacy by Design is a framework, developed by Ann Cavoukian in the 1990s, that embeds privacy protection into technology and business practices from the start of design.

Privacy CA

A Privacy CA (Privacy-CA) is a trusted third party in the Trusted Computing Group architecture that issues credentials for attestation identity keys in TPM platforms.

Privacy concerns with Google

Privacy concerns with Google center on the breadth of data the company collects across Search, Chrome, Android, Gmail, Maps, and YouTube, and the advertising business that data supports.

Privacy concerns with social networking services

Privacy concerns with social networking services, also called social networking privacy, center on platforms' mass collection and monetization of personal data, including Facebook's record $5 billion FTC penalty in 2019.

Privacy law

Privacy law is the body of law governing how personal data about identifiable people is collected, used, and shared, including the EU's GDPR and California's CCPA.

Privacy laws of the United States

Privacy laws of the United States: sectoral federal statutes (Privacy Act of 1974, HIPAA, GLBA, FCRA, COPPA), constitutional and common-law privacy protections, and the growing patchwork of state comprehensive laws including the CCPA, with no single federal privacy statute.

Privacy policy

A privacy policy, also called a privacy notice, is a legal statement disclosing how an organization collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects personal information, and what rights users have.

Privacy Shield

The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was a framework for transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States, adopted in 2016 and invalidated in 2020.

Privacy-preserving record linkage

Privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) matches records of the same entity across organizations' databases while encrypting identifiers such as names and addresses, most often using Bloom filters, and is widely used in medical settings like cancer registries.

Private (rank)

Private (rank) is the most junior enlisted rank in many armies, at NATO grade OR-1/OR-2; in the US Army it is PV1, the Basic Combat Training trainee rank with no insignia.

Private activity bond

A private activity bond (PAB) is a tax-exempt bond issued by or on behalf of a state or local government to finance a private business project, authorized under Internal Revenue Code Section 142.

Private banking

Private banking is a subset of wealth management serving high-net-worth individuals through a dedicated relationship manager, with entry thresholds typically from $1 million to $5 million in assets.

Private Benjamin (1980 film)

Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn as a sheltered young woman who enlists in the Army after her husband dies.

Private Bodyguard

Private Bodyguard is a 2024 Indonesian Viu Original drama series by SinemArt, adapted from Caroline Puspojudo's story, about orphan Fely adopted by the father of the Four Prince brothers; 15 episodes, 52 million views in eight episodes.

Private branch exchange

A private branch exchange (PBX) is a private telephone switching system that routes calls within an organization, first installed in 1882 and now available as IP-based or hosted cloud services.

Private browsing

Private browsing, also known as incognito mode, is a web browser mode that discards history, cookies, and temporary files on close; it does not make users anonymous online.

Private capacity of a quantum channel

The private capacity of a quantum channel is the maximum rate, in private bits per use, at which it transmits classical information an eavesdropper cannot learn.

Private Citizens

Private Citizens, Tony Tulathimutte's 2016 debut novel (also tagged 'Middlemarch for millennials'), follows four Stanford graduates, Cory, Will, Henrik, and Linda, through 2007-2008 San Francisco tech culture; New York Magazine called it the first great millennial novel.

Private Cloud Compute

Private Cloud Compute is Apple's 2024 architecture for cloud AI inference on servers a device can cryptographically verify, so personal data is inaccessible even to Apple.

Private company limited by shares

Private company limited by shares (Ltd): the dominant UK company form under the Companies Act 2006, with member liability capped at unpaid share amounts, no public share offers, and over 90% of registered companies.

Private Dancer

Private Dancer, Tina Turner's fifth solo album (Capitol, May 1984), her comeback record; features "What's Love Got to Do With It" (three weeks at Hot 100 No. 1), four Grammys, and multi-million sales.