What is the difference between Data Security and Data Privacy?

I found one very good line for the difference between data security and data privacy from one of the reports I studied, which had been prepared by President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST), United States of America (USA). The statement was, "Security deals with tomorrow's threats against today's platforms. That is hard enough. But privacy deals with tomorrow's threats against tomorrow's platforms since those platforms comprise not just hardware and software, but also new kinds of data and new algorithms”

We can say that security is some absolute term whereas privacy is the relative term. Suppose, we have a lock and few keys for that lock. Now, we have some important data which we want to lock. Whoever is having the key, only eligible for access to the data and no one else can get access to it. It means either you have an access to whole data or to none. However, in the case of privacy, we need to have stages of locks and more no of keys because we need to share some data with someone and some other data to someone else. Hence, we want to share data selectively which is the difficult issue.

Many people think that privacy and security are same. Other thinks that privacy is part of security. I don't know how to relate these terms mathematically but I believe that privacy issues are difficult to handle than security issues.

Originally posted on 20/11/2014 at https://brijeshbmehta.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/what-is-the-difference-between-security-and-privacy/

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Problem with creating tables in Latex?

Latex provides a very good interface and is very helpful in creating documents and presentations. Many research journals are supporting Latex format. However, creating a table in Latex is really a very difficult issue for someone, who used to make it very easily in word or excel.

I found the very helpful website for creating tables "http://www.tablesgenerator.com/" you just need to create a table just like you create with the word or excel and its compatible latex code is being generated. just copy and paste this code and you are done with your tedious job of the coding table in Latex. It also provides support for the HTML and other formats.

Isn't it amazing? Try yourself and provide the reviews.

Courtesy: Dr. Nishant Doshi

Originally posted on 17/11/2014 at https://brijeshbmehta.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/problem-with-creating-tables-in-latex/

Review of the Book titled "The Immortals of Meluha"

"The Immortals of Meluha" is the first book from the Shiva Trilogy (a series of 3 books) by Amish Tripathi. Although I am not a big fan of Mythological stories, I like the story of this book and I am keen to read the next part.

Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/The_Immortals_Of_Meluha.jpg

One of my friend suggested me in 2010 to read this book but as I said earlier, I am not much interested in mythological stories. One more time she insisted and I bought the book in 2012 but just put it with my other books. This time in the Diwali vacation I accidentally found this book in my hand and thought to give it a try. As soon as I started reading it, I got more and more interest in it.

Amish has taken care of almost everything about Hindu religion and India. He tried his best to give very good English meaning to the typical Hindi words. I really appreciate his effort for that. I feel like, he spent to many words on describing the things and situation which need very lesser words, but it might be the writing style of mythological stories (otherwise how it can become this much thicker in size!!! ;) ).

Overall, it's very interesting book to read. It has nothing to do with religious things but connection with the real character make it more interesting. I like the maika system from this story. We should have that kind of system in India so that parents doesn't force their children to do what they wants them to do instead allow them to do what they are best at.

Originally posted on 31/10/2014 at https://brijeshbmehta.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/review-of-book-the-immortals-of-meluha/

Return gift to the humanity (Importance of Giving)

Even after 3 years of this article, I am still donating whatever I can to the humanity. I hope this will inspire you too.

Today was my birthday but I received a great gift from god few days in advanced. I am really very grateful for it.

I inspired to write about the importance of giving from one of my friend and mentor Mr. Nishant Doshi. He always makes some donation and provides some voluntary contribution to the local social welfare organizations. He told me that he gets a great pleasure by doing these things. but the problem with him is he spends the money of birthday celebration party on this activities so his friends never get any party from him. Therefore, they get little angry on him( ;) ). But I feel it's about anyone's personal choice. I too get inspired from it, though I make donation two or three times a year and believes in the philosophy of making 1% donation of yearly earning though due to many circumstances always falls short of it but still I am happy that I am giving something back to the society.

Now I have decided that I will also contribute to the society on all my special days either with making the donation or performing some community service. Don't worry my friends I will not cut your share of the party but I request all of you that if you really want to gift me something, please make a donation of the same amount I will definitely get what I want from it.

Hope you understand my point. I found Vivekananda Kendra as very good Social Work Community and we can easily make the online contribution on their website. You will also get tax benefit under section 80G. This is just one example you may suggest others in the comments so that other people also come to know about it. Please beware of fraud NGOs.

So, give return gift to the humanity by making the contribution to the society which provides us lot of things and makes us what we are today.

Originally posted on 22/10/2014 at https://brijeshbmehta.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/return-gift-to-the-humanity-importance-of-giving/