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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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eDiscovery/Safe Harbor: Countries that might protect my customers data

Hi I hope someone may help, my customer is based in the european union and would like to protect its data from any eDiscovery/Safe Harbor agreements. Is there any country left which would be the real Safe Harbor ;-) Well Switzerland also signed…
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iOS access file with data protection after user locks a device

I have a thread that keeps running in background after the device is locked. I have some files on the application and they are protected with NSFileProtectionComplete How can I access the files after the user locks the device(after the 10 secs)?
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ios: protect Strings or include specific file in compilation

I face the following problem: I have a bunch of NSStrings in one of my .m files and I don't won't users to access them (which can easily be done with jailbreak and strings tool etc). I thought about encrypting the NSStrings - but then I'll get some…
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Whats a good way to protect a link database from automatic scrapers?

I have a large link database, that I would want to protect against others who would want to copy them. Is there anything I can do other than force people to enter a CAPTCHA before each link?
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how to protect batch source code?

OK so I tried to convert bat to exe using many programs but at the end all of them just put the bat files in temp folder so I wonder if there is another way to protect the code I thought is there a way to delete that bat from the temp folder after…
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Prevent application cache from extracting files on iOS

I have an iOS application, which stores all downloaded *.pdf files in its cache. Is there a way to prevent this data from extracting? Encryption or something else? Thanks in advance.
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Phone number brute forcing protection in web

I recently started designing my own Web-API and my current goal is to make it possible to register guest user with his phone number, but there is a requirement: my database must not contain phone number duplicates. So I decided that I need a service…
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How to add - Data protection Entitlement for ReactNative iOS App

I want to add Data Protection entitlement for my iOS reactnative app. I tried adding it to plist in my react native project and it dint work.
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WiFi data protection from landlord / Router as encrypted repeater?

I have a spare router lying around. In our house, we’re using our landlords WiFi and we’re a bit sketched out to allow them to read all our visited websites and whatnot. So there are basically two ideas. A) use one of the many VPNs to undermine…
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What would be the flow of a secure online win code activation mechanism?

Imagine a campaign where a visitor with a unique win-code from a product package can win immediately by entering just the code. The client wants email etc. after validating the winning code. This is uncommon, but much more sympathetic as opposed to…
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Heroku

I am from Austria, Europe. I am hosting my application on Heroku in Europe. Because of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe I am wondering if I need to take care of something new. I am storing the following data of…
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How to protect a sqlite3 database made with python of "outside" editing

First of all sorry for my bad english, is not my native lenguage. So I have a python (2.7) program that READ, DELETE, and INSERT data into a sqlite3 database. (The program is done and works fine). My new problem is that I don't want that the…
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Linux C++ application file protection

I'm developing a Linux application that needs to save some sensible data in order to reload them when the machine reboot. So I'm investigating on how to save somewhere my data and protect them. (Obviously there will be always a possibility to crack…
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Protect contents of USB to be copied

We have a application, which uses some contents developed using flash, PPT, stored into file system. We are distributing this application to end customer using USB drive, so we want to protect the contents of USB, so that no one can copy it. But our…
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Europe cluster availabe for europe� its also used for cloud storage and gmail?

With release 1.7 of appengine sdk it specifies that europe cluster is available. But Does this cluster used for all google services as Drive or gmail? It is an important point for europe laws about privicy and data protection. Regards
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