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Data sharing

Data sharing is the act of making account information available to another person, organization, or system.

In plain English

It means letting information from an account be available beyond the account holder or service itself. That availability can be to another person, an organization, or a technical system.

In context

Here, “Data sharing” labels a privacy setting about whether account information is made available to another person, organization, or system.

Situation
Notification, privacy, data-export, and account-deletion settings
What it communicates
labels a data-use privacy setting

Meaning limits

By itself, the term does not say which account information is involved or under what conditions it is made available.

Examples

“Data sharing with her accountant ended last month.”

Core meaning

“For this account, Data sharing is set to off.”

In context

  • information sharing Broader Term

    Making account information available is one kind of making information available.

  • third-party data sharing Narrower Term

    This is a special case where the information is made available to a third party.