There have been a number of privacy-preserving mechanisms developed for privacy protection at different stages (for example, data generation, data storage, and data processing) of a big data life cycle.
Efforts to standardize reporting requirements, vocabularies and develop common XML data formats for sharing data are welcome and can greatly ease the transfer and automated processing of a particular data type.
"A data processor does not determine the purpose of processing — a data controller does," said Boiten, commenting on this point.
It uses grid computing as a strategy to a processing grid, instead of a data grid.
According to a person briefed on the announcement, Cisco is expected to release a new set of products, code-named "California," that tie together the networking, storage, processing and virtualization of a data center.
Another improvement in the weather information provided by Nexrad is the digital processing of radar data, a procedure that renders the information in a form that can be interpreted by an observer who is not necessarily a meteorologist.
"We believe we have complied with all relevant policies and regulations relating to the collection and processing of patient data," a spokesman for the Royal Free said in a statement.
The process may involve the shaping of metal, the molding of plastic, the switching of electrical signals in a communication system, or the processing of data in a computerized information system.
The final result of data processing is a data matrix, a table that contains all samples and analytical features (i.e., metabolite-derived signals).
The study design was approved by the Ethical Committee of National Cancer Institute of Genoa, and, according to the Italian law on use and processing of health data, a notification of the study design and procedures was sent to the Italian Data Protection Commission.
