Control Over Personal Information in the Database Era

Application of NCEPCFSR Climatic Database Information in the Absence of Observational Information of Dez Dam Watershed

Rainfall-Runoff simulation is one of the main subject of hydrology and environmental management. Therefore, researchers are constantly interested in finding new ways to solve this problem and modify existing models or modeling methods. However, the lack of statistics and information from the poor development of hydrological networks has always been a major problem in countries that facing finan...

The migration of information control in the digital era

Breast Cancer in the Personal Genomics Era

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with a complex etiology that develops from different cellular lineages, progresses along multiple molecular pathways, and demonstrates wide variability in response to treatment. The "standard of care" approach to breast cancer treatment in which all patients receive similar interventions is rapidly being replaced by personalized medicine, based on molecu...

Privacy in the YouTube Era: Evolving Concepts in the Protection of Personal Information

Justice Louis Brandeis' concept of privacy in the early 20th century was, "the right to be left alone." Yet in the era of YouTube, social networking, and reality TV, it is increasingly common for individuals to seek widespread exposure of their ideas, images, and selves to the broadest possible audience. At the same time, however, the theft and misuse of personal information continues to grow a...

The control over personal data: True remedy or fairy tale ?

This research report undertakes an interdisciplinary review of the concept of “control” (i.e. the idea that people should have greater “control” over their data), proposing an analysis of this concept in the field of law and computer science. Despite the omnipresence of the notion of control in the EU policy documents, scholarly literature and in the press, the very meaning of this concept rema...