Each online interaction with an external service creates data about the user that is digitally recorded and stored. These services may be credit card transactions, medical consultations, census collection, voter registration, etc. Although ostensibly collected to provide citizens better services, privacy of individual inevitably put at risk. With growing reach Internet volume being generated, p...

background: personal information management (pim) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. this study examined the pim activities of faculty members of iran university of medical sciences (iums) regarding their preferred pim tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information.   methods : the qualitati...