A Study on Data Protection in Cloud Environment

Data protection in the online environment pertains to the safeguarding of sensitive or important data kept, analyzed, or sent in cloud-based systems. It entails assuring data confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as well as adhering to appropriate data protection requirements. In a nutshell, cloud data protection seeks to protect data against unauthorized access, deletion, or breaches while retaining its accuracy and accessible to authorized users. This is accomplished in the cloud environment using various security measures, encryption approaches, access controls, disaster recovery and backup processes, and constant monitoring and threat detection.  The research significance of data protection in the cloud environment can be summarized as follows: Security and Privacy: Research in data protection in the cloud helps address the security and privacy concerns associated with storing and processing sensitive data in cloud-based systems. It explores and develops advanced security mechanisms, encryption techniques, and access controls to protect data from unauthorized access, data breaches, and privacy violations. Trust and Confidence: Research in data protection contributes to building trust and confidence in cloud computing. By developing robust security solutions and demonstrating their effectiveness, research helps alleviate concerns about data security and privacy, fostering greater adoption of cloud services by organizations and individuals. Compliance and Regulations: Cloud computing often involves compliance with data protection regulations and industry standards. Research in this area explores the legal and regulatory aspects of data protection in the cloud and helps organizations understand and comply with relevant requirements. Data Resilience and Recovery: Research in data protection focuses on ensuring data resilience and developing efficient data recovery mechanisms in the cloud. It explores backup and disaster recovery strategies, data replication techniques, and data loss prevention methods to minimize downtime, recover data promptly, and maintain business continuity in the event of system failures or disasters. By addressing these research areas, studies on data protection in the cloud environment contribute to enhancing security, privacy, compliance, and resilience in cloud computing. They provide valuable insights, practical solutions, and guidelines for organizations and service providers to protect data effectively and maintain the trust of users in cloud-based services. The weighted product method approach is commonly used to choose the best data protection in cloud environment. CCSS1, CCSS2, CCSS3, CCSS4, CCSS5 data visibility, data integrity, Maintains compliance, Data security, Data storage. From the result it is seen that CCSS2 got highest rank whereas CCSS5 got lowest rank According to the results, CCSS2 was ranked first

From Data Disclosure to Privacy Nudges: A Privacy-aware and User-centric Personal Data Management Framework

Although there are privacy-enhancing tools designed to protect users' online privacy, it is surprising to see a lack of user-centric solutions allowing privacy control based on the joint assessment of privacy risks and benefits, due to data disclosure to \emph{multiple} platforms. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework to fill the gap: aiming at the user-centric privacy protection, we show the framework can not only assess privacy risks in using online services but also the added values earned from data disclosure. Through following a human-in-the-loop approach, it is expected the framework provides a personalized solution via preference learning, continuous privacy assessment, behavior monitoring and nudging. Finally, we describe a case study towards "leisure travelers" and several future areas to be studied in the ongoing project

Big data for monitoring educational systems

This report considers “how advances in big data are likely to transform the context and methodology of monitoring educational systems within a long-term perspective (10-30 years) and impact the evidence based policy development in the sector”, big data are “large amounts of different types of data produced with high velocity from a high number of various types of sources.” Five independent experts were commissioned by Ecorys, responding to themes of: students' privacy, educational equity and efficiency, student tracking, assessment and skills. The experts were asked to consider the “macro perspective on governance on educational systems at all levels from primary, secondary education and tertiary – the latter covering all aspects of tertiary from further, to higher, and to VET”, prioritising primary and secondary levels of education

Reputational Privacy and the Internet: A Matter for Law?

Reputation - we all have one. We do not completely comprehend its workings and are mostly unaware of its import until it is gone. When we lose it, our traditional laws of defamation, privacy, and breach of confidence rarely deliver the vindication and respite we seek due, primarily, to legal systems that cobble new media methods of personal injury onto pre-Internet laws. This dissertation conducts an exploratory study of the relevance of law to loss of individual reputation perpetuated on the Internet. It deals with three interrelated concepts: reputation, privacy, and memory. They are related in that the increasing lack of privacy involved in our online activities has had particularly powerful reputational effects, heightened by the Internet’s duplicative memory. The study is framed within three research questions: 1) how well do existing legal mechanisms address loss of reputation and informational privacy in the new media environment; 2) can new legal or extra-legal solutions fill any gaps; and 3) how is the role of law pertaining to reputation affected by the human-computer interoperability emerging as the Internet of Things? Through a review of international and domestic legislation, case law, and policy initiatives, this dissertation explores the extent of control held by the individual over her reputational privacy. Two emerging regulatory models are studied for improvements they offer over current legal responses: the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, and American Do Not Track policies. Underscoring this inquiry are the challenges posed by the Internet’s unique architecture and the fact that the trove of references to reputation in international treaties is not making its way into domestic jurisprudence or daily life. This dissertation examines whether online communications might be developing a new form of digital speech requiring new legal responses and new gradients of personal harm; it also proposes extra-legal solutions to the paradox that our reputational needs demand an overt sociality while our desire for privacy has us shunning the limelight. As we embark on the Web 3.0 era of human-machine interoperability and the Internet of Things, our expectations of the role of law become increasingly important

The European legal approach to Open Science and research data

This dissertation proposes an analysis of the governance of the European scientific research, focusing on the emergence of the Open Science paradigm: a new way of doing science, oriented towards the openness of every phase of the scientific research process, able to take full advantage of the digital ICTs. The emergence of this paradigm is relatively recent, but in the last years it has become increasingly relevant. The European institutions expressed a clear intention to embrace the Open Science paradigm (eg., think about the European Open Science Cloud, EOSC; or the establishment of the Horizon Europe programme). This dissertation provides a conceptual framework for the multiple interventions of the European institutions in the field of Open Science, addressing the major legal challenges of its implementation. The study investigates the notion of Open Science, proposing a definition that takes into account all its dimensions related to the human and fundamental rights framework in which Open Science is grounded. The inquiry addresses the legal challenges related to the openness of research data, in light of the European Open Data framework and the impact of the GDPR on the context of Open Science. The last part of the study is devoted to the infrastructural dimension of the Open Science paradigm, exploring the e-infrastructures. The focus is on a specific type of computational infrastructure: the High Performance Computing (HPC) facility. The adoption of HPC for research is analysed from the European perspective, investigating the EuroHPC project, and the local perspective, proposing the case study of the HPC facility of the University of Luxembourg, the ULHPC. This dissertation intends to underline the relevance of the legal coordination approach, between all actors and phases of the process, in order to develop and implement the Open Science paradigm, adhering to the underlying human and fundamental rights

BK 10-15:

Over the years 2010-2015 TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (in Dutch: Bouwkunde or BK) made good progress with its research by: merging the Architecture faculty and the Built Environment research institute; streamlining its PhD research by setting-up a graduate school for doctoral education; co-founding an institute for metropolitan solutions in Amsterdam together with MIT and Wageningen University (targeted yearly budget: 25 M€); implementing good research management; increasing the scientific output; managing a project portfolio with a yearly income of 1.5 M€ in research grants, 5 M€ in contract research and up to 2 M€ in other external funding; ranking 3rd in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015 - Architecture / Built Environment. Presented in this book is an overview of research data and policies, together with a selection of our finest research results: activities, organisations, facilities/assets, output, including indications of their use and recognition. Now it is not the time to become complacent. Instead, we should look ahead to face new academic and societal challenges and opportunities, knowing we can always do better