Pulse, which tries to build a social network around third-party data, allows users to stay connected to their friends' updates (using oAuth, the secure data portability standard), via a feed, across different social networks and platforms.
Confidentiality was guaranteed through data encryption, using the Secure Locket Layer protocol; patients' names were coded when interacting with the website.
Baseline data was collected using the secure trial internet site and included sex, age at onset of disease symptoms, flare of symptoms in the past 7 days and medication.
The patient data extraction result is passed to a safe haven (step 6b), accessible only to the authorised researcher, using the appropriate secure data transport mechanism.
In this paper, we introduce the secure data aggregation using the access control and authentication (SDAACA) protocol.
Traditionally, cryptographic techniques are used to secure data at the upper layer of protocol stack using public and private key variations.
"Using encryption to secure data and communications assists in crime prevention but may also inhibit the lawfully authorized interception of communications and evidence gathering in national security and criminal investigations," reads the RCMP statement.
Encryption techniques can be used to secure data while it is being transferred in and out of the cloud or stored in the provider's premises.
Those devices come equipped with Apple's proprietary Secure Enclave, a portion of the core processing chip where private encryption keys are stored and used to secure data and to enable features like Touch ID.
Several rounds of the above function (9, 11, 13) were executed with the possibility of encrypting data, to use such encrypted data for transfer; although it will cost a large computational cost, it can be used to secure data.
