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OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks

The OWASP project’s list of the ten most common privacy risks in web applications (among them web application vulnerabilities, operator-sided data leakage, insufficient data breach response, consent on everything, excessive data collection), each with countermeasures.

When to use itYou review a web application’s design or code for privacy risks.

Published by
OWASP (non-profit)
Written for
international
For
developers
Cost
free, open source
Languages
English
Open the toolowasp.org

Description by overview.legal; the tool itself is the publisher’s.

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