data custody

Meaning

Noun

• The guardianship and protection of data from exploitation and abuse, during storage or transport, ensuring the security, integrity, and sovereignty of one's own data.

Origin

• data: borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”).
  
• custody: from Latin custodia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custos (“a keeper, watchman, guard”), (“a Roman Catholic warden of holy lands [obsolete]”).