Everything about Personal data

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Personal dataA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Personal Data Stores (PDS): A ReviewInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Upgrading and repairing PCsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: LifeLogging: Personal Big DataCited 351 times
5. Go sideways: Gathering of personally identifiable informationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Personal identifierA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• LifeLogging: Personal Big Data

  Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton, Aiden R. Doherty · 2014 · Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval · 351 citations

• Raw Personal Data: Providing Access

  Jeantine E. Lunshof, George M. Church, Barbara Prainsack · 2014 · Science · 48 citations

• Secure personal data servers

  Tristan Allard, Nicolas Anciaux, Luc Bouganim · 2010 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 42 citations

• Personal data markets

  Sarah Spiekermann, Rainer Böhme, Alessandro Acquisti · 2015 · Electronic Markets · 32 citations

• Adaptive Architecture and Personal Data

  Holger Schnädelbach, Nils Jäger, Lachlan Urquhart · 2019 · ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction · 23 citations

• Society and personal genome data

  Anna Middleton · 2018 · Human Molecular Genetics · 23 citations

• Personal Data Assistants

  Judith A. Lewis, Catherine O. Sommers · 2003 · MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing · 22 citations

• The Personal Data Store Approach to Personal Data Security

  Tom Kirkham, Sandra Winfield, Serge Ravet · 2013 · IEEE Security & Privacy · 16 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Personal Data Stores (PDS): A Review

  Khalid U. Fallatah, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Charith Perera · 2023 · Sensors · 35 citations

• Using deceased people’s personal data

  Hiroshi Nakagawa, Akiko Orita · 2022 · AI & SOCIETY · 14 citations

• The Regulation of Personal and Non-Personal Data in the Context of Big Data

  Daniar Supriyadi · 2023 · Journal of Human Rights, Culture and Legal System · 9 citations

• Artificial Intelligence v. Personal Data

  Katarzyna Chałubińska-Jentkiewicz, Monika Nowikowska · 2022 · Polish Political Science Yearbook · 6 citations

• Competitive Advantage and Personal Data Ecosystems: A Typology of Personal Data Control Constellations

  Ruben D’Hauwers, Laurens Vandercruysse · 2025 · Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research · 5 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Upgrading and repairing PCsScott Mueller, Mark Edward Soper · 1988
• IBM PC ApprenticeInc. Wordware Pub., Leonard Paul Kubiak · 1984
• How computers workRon White, Timothy Edward Downs · 1993
• 📕Financial Modeling and ValuationPaul Pignataro · 2013
• How computers workRon White, Ron White · 1994
• The Art of InvisibilityKevin D. Mitnick, Robert Vamosi · 2017
• The Hitch-Hikers's Guide to Artificial IntelligenceRichard Forsyth, Chris Naylor · 1985
• Computers simplifiedPaul McFedries · 2005

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🔗 Related topics

• Gathering of personally identifiable information The gathering of personally identifiable information (PII) refers to the collection of public and private personal data that can be used to identify individuals…
• Personal identifier Personal Identifiers (PID) are a subset of personally identifiable information (PII) data elements, which identify an individual and can permit another…
• Privacy engineering Privacy engineering is an emerging field of engineering which aims to provide methods, tools, and techniques to ensure systems provide acceptable levels…
• Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009 The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009 (S. 1490 Official title: A bill to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to provide…
• Pseudonymization Pseudonymization is a data management and de-identification procedure by which personally identifiable information fields within a data record are replaced…
• Information sensitivity Information sensitivity is the control of access to information or knowledge that might result in loss of an advantage or level of security if disclosed…
• Personal Information Agent A Personal Information Agent (PIA) is an individual, business, or organization who is expressly authorized by another identifiable individual in dealings…
• Information privacy law Information privacy, data privacy or data protection laws provide a legal framework on how to obtain, use and store data of natural persons. The various…