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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 to protect (encrypt) data stored by webkit/local store

I'm developing an app that uses the PhoneGap framework, and therefore is just a plain web-app that uses HTML5. As with many web-apps, my customer also wants data available when the device is offline. For those situations, I want to store data in the…
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Prevent instantiation of readonly objects from framework

I am currently in the process of creating an objective c framework for iOS to help facilitate the interaction between an API and a developer. As part of this, I return various arrays of readonly objects that a developer can use to display…
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Amazon SimpeDB - apps - data protection

I have been using AWS (Amazon Web services) and in particular simpleDB for a couple of smartphone apps using their iOS/android client libraries. So far, the data was very benign so I didn't worry too much about data protection. My next app project…
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Selecting a Secure DBMS against direct disk access

I'm going to create a Java Application for collecting some enterprise information. My problem is the DBMS security. EDIT: My Application is not connected to Network and the whole DB and App. are located on the system that app. is accessed from…
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Best practice to secure data in a SQL Server 2008 database

I have been creating an ASP.net web application for my client. This will be hosted in their organisation (this requirement is compulsory). One of their requirements is to secure the data in the database so their internal administrators and DBA's…
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Best practice to protect model after post in MVC3

What is the best practice to protect model against unwanted parse/update after post in MVC3 Controller action called at HttpGet-> Product/Edit: public ActionResult Edit() { Product p = new Product(); p.Id = 1; …
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php user management systems

I'm on my last steps to open my website, but the only thing that drove me crazy is the php user management. I found a lot of resources about building these systems and I believe that I can write them in my own way. The thing is that when it comes to…
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Prevent user from printing/saving PDF file in C#

I am writing an application that views PDF files, this application uses AxAcroPDFLib AxAcroPDF My problem here is that I want to prevent user from saving and/or printing PDF files that are being viewed in my application Or in other words I want to…
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Simulate Data Protection on iPhone Simulator

I am trying study the Data Protection Process on iPhone Simulator, but i am failing at the initial step.I created a DB File and added it to the Application Resources. During the Application Launch i copy this file to the Application Folder. Then i…
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A Good Method for Storing Personal Information

I am writing a web application (in PHP) at the moment that holds sensitive information about users on it, but in order to comply with the DPA, I want it to be fully encrypted as its running on a shared server. This information is then provided to…
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How to Password protect iOS app file?

I have an app where people could enter sensitive personal information. Is there a reasonable method to protect this from - even family access?
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How to store data in db so that nobody with access to it can understand it?

We are soon releasing a private beta of a domestic economy website. The website of course gathers information from a user's (identified by email only) private financial situation: salary, rent, bills, mortages, etc. All of these are really sensitive…
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Only logged in users can access image files

const auth = require("./api/middleware/check-auth.interceptor"); app.use("/images/cars", auth, express.static("images/cars")); app.use("/images/repairs", express.static("images/repairs")); I'm designing an admin panel, only the admin needs to…
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Is there any way to protect data inside SD card?

As we all know internal storage is not the right place to store big data in Android for many reasons that's why we should rely on SD card. My app needs to store a lot of small videos and images in a cache folder, for this reason im using the…
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"The Payload was Invalid" error when using Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection Unprotect and DangerousUnprotect

I am using Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.IDataProtector to protect and unprotect strings stored in a SQL Server database. The key ring is persisted in the same SQL Server database and they are protected using a Self-signed…
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