**2. Ethical code of conduct through privacy legislations**

Incredible amount of digital data is generated by virtue of various applications and technologies. This digital data will also contain personal and sensitive data of an individual which must be confidential, secure and private. Data privacy is the responsibility of the firms that capture the data and ensure no privacy breach in any stage of data processing. Hence there is a need for ethical code of conduct for privacy preservation of personal and sensitive data in private and public domains. **Figure 3** depicts few important practices of ethical code of conduct in data processing.

There is a need for privacy legislations because of modern privacy threats and also to ensure ethical practices being followed by data holders. Some of the modern privacy threats are:

