Data Control: Major Challenge for the Digital Society

Businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of data and information. As such, they are eager to develop ways to �manage� them, to enrich them and take advantage of them. Indeed, the recent explosion of a phenomenal amount of data, and the need to analyze it, brings to the forefront the well-known hierarchical model: �Data, Information, Knowledge�.

�Data�– this new intangible manna – is produced in real time. It arrives in a continuous stream and comes from a multitude of s...