Confidentiality and the Data Protection Act*

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The Data Protection Act 1998 and the occupational physician.

The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) [1] became law on 24 October 1998. It is based around eight ‘Principles of Data Protection’ (Table 1) and its provisions apply to manually processed data such as health records. For living individuals, it replaces the Access to Health Records Act 1990 [2]. However, the majority of the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 [3] remains in force. It is not the purpo...

An Approach to Data Confidentiality Protection in Cloud Environments

In current cloud computing systems, because users’ data is stored and processed by computing systems managed and operated by various service providers, users are concerned with the risks of unauthorized usage of their sensitive data by various entities, including service providers. The current cloud computing systems protect users’ data confidentiality from all entities, except service provider...

the speech act of advice and the introvert/extrovert distinction among iranian efl university students

the aim of this study is to examine the difference between the introverts and extroverts in preferred advice-giving style. furthermore, it explores the difference between l1 (persian) and l2 (english) regarding the giving of advice for the extroverts and introverts separately. it investigates whether an extrovert or introvert gives advice in the same manner in his l1 (persian) and l2 (english) ...

New Approaches to Confidentiality Protection

This document reports the results of research and analysis undertaken by the U.S. Census Bureau staff. It has undergone a Census Bureau review more limited in scope than that given to official Census Bureau publications. [This document is released to inform interested parties of ongoing research and to encourage discussion of work in progress.] and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The views expr...