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Questions tagged [data-protection]

Tag for questions relating to personal data protection, and legal issues regarding privacy.

The Data Protection Act (DPA) is law in most countries with a number of rules and regulations concerning personal and private data.

  • Data is processed fairly and lawfully
  • Data shouldn't be given away without permission
  • Data should be relevant and not excessive
  • Data should be accurate and up to date
  • Data should only be kept for as long as necessary
  • Individuals have the right to check data which is about them
  • Data should be securely kept
  • Data must not be transferred to another country without adequate data protection

People involved include the data subject - the person who the data is about and the data controller - the person in charge of handling the data.

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How can i secure my application and also protect my Sqlite database in application

How can i secure my application and also protect my database in application. Which means data is not accessed by other application or by reverse engineering. Like in banking application login data and other information is stored in app but we can…
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Data Protection Error when Running Build on Client System

-Using TFS 2015 Update 3 On Premise Server -Build Agent is installed on a user's Windows 7 PC After creation of the Build Agent, builds run successfully for 12-24 hours. After that, receives the following error: "The data protection operation was…
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Protect BIOS from very aggressive program

For the sake of experiment, I plan to run program X in realmode. Program X will make a random routine, and execute it (I want to see what will happen). But I worry that this program eventually damages the BIOS permanently. Is there a way to protect…
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Maintaining strict data confidentiality of clients

I am building car rental web-application software I recently encountered a concern from a possible client; that they don't want the software company to see their data in the database. They load their rates contracts etc which are confidential and…
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How do I host a web application on AWS for worldwide use while following the Data Protection Laws for Germany & European Union?

We are building an application that stores email and phone numbers of the users. We understand that German data privacy laws require the database and web services to be hosted in Germany (i.e. a data centre in Germany). Our AWS EC2 instance is…
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Data Protection, Keychain and Core Data's Sqlite files

I'd appreciate that someone could make it clear some questions I have regarding Data Protection feature: Is needed/recommended to enable Data Protection to encrypt and protect the SQLite files managed by Core Data? If so, what should I do to…
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aspnet_regiis is not able to find a custom app setting group

I am working on an asp.net mvc web application. and I have defined a custom section group named "customAppSettingsGroup" inside my web.config:- …
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What does enabling "Data Protection" in iOS exactly imply?

I'm looking for information about Data Protection capability in Apple's documentation, but I hardly found any. I'd appreciate that someone could make me clear some questions: Does enabling that capability require any more actions from the…
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Issues with protectedData API

I have following code and application works successfully sometimes but for certain users its not able to decrypt the password. It happens when mostly on server and multi user environment, works great on dev machine. public static byte [] Protect(…
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iOS "Data Protection" depends on user passcode set or not?

When developing iOS Apps one can chose to add the Capability "Data Protection", which then offers more "protection". What, after a lot of searching and reading, is still unclear to me: will the files declared to be secured with "complete protection"…
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How to **delete-protect** a file or folder on Windows Server 2003 and onwards using C#/Vb.Net?

Is it possible to delete-protect a file/folder using Registry or using a custom written Windows Service in C#? Using Folder Permissions it is possible, but I am looking for a solution that even restricts the admin from deleting specific folders.…
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Commandline tools to restore a versioned deleted file in S3?

I have versioning enabled in my S3 bucket, how do I restore a deleted file with a command line S3 client, such as s3cmd? How do I browse the different versions of the files? So far, I have regressed to Freeware Cloudberry Windows Client to achieve…
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Prevent user from editing text file when the program is closed

I need to write a program that handles a simple database. My goal is to simply write all the data in memory into a .txt and then at program start read it all in. I want to be able to prevent the user from editing the txt file outside the…
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Should you use accessors on complex data types?

Should you use accessors on complex data types? Here is an example: Say I've got a Player class and inside it theres a Sprite object. Let's say the Sprite object has a setPosition() accessor method. Now let's say I want to call that method through…
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Access Sqlite database in background while data protection is on for app

Can we access the Sqlite database in background while data protection is on for the app. If the data protection is on for the app then the file system is not accessible. Can app write to database in that case?
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