The control of a proposed data storage device uses at least two user profiles for the device, a first user profile including access rights authorizing at least the writing and reading of data in a memory of the data storage device, and a second user profile including access rights authorizing the writing of data in the memory of the data storage device and prohibiting at least the reading of data in the memory of the data storage device which were not previously written by the user.

In one or more embodiments, these user profiles can be created and configured during a phase of configuring the data storage device by a first user, for example a user who owns the device, and then can be saved in the memory of the data storage device.

Configuring a user profile can typically include defining the access rights available to users corresponding to the profile, among which are permission to write data in the memory of the storage device (possibly including permission to modify data written in the memory of the storage device), permission to read data stored in the memory of the storage device, and permission to delete data stored in the memory of the storage device.

The configuration of a user profile may further comprise the creation of at least one association between the user profile and a user, for example by means of a user identifier.

The configuration of the device, and in particular the configuration of the user profiles, advantageously may be carried out in one or more embodiments by means of a graphical user interface, possibly integrated with a software application executed on a computing device (for example a smartphone or tablet) to which the storage device is connected for its configuration.