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data integrity
(I) The property that data has not been changed, destroyed, or
lost in an unauthorized or accidental manner. (See: data integrity
service.)
(O) "The property that information has not been modified or
destroyed in an unauthorized manner." [I7498 Part 2]
(C) Deals with constancy of and confidence in data values, not
with the information that the values represent (see: correctness
integrity) or the trustworthiness of the source of the values
(see: source integrity).