Privacy

Videovigilancia y derechos fundamentales: los estándares del Consejo de Europa

by Luis I Gordillo

en ABEL LLUCH, Xavier, PICÓ i JUNOY, Joan y RICHARD GONZÁLEZ, Manuel (dirs.), La prueba judicial. Desafíos en las jurisdicciones civil, penal, laboral y contencioso-administrativa, La Ley-Wolters Kluwer, Madrid, 2011, pp. 1565-1588. ISBN: 978-84-8126-777-8.

Contribución al libro colectivo "La prueba judicial". Contribución al libro colectivo "La prueba judicial".

Self-disclosure and Privacy Calculus on Social Networking Sites: The Role of Culture

by Natasha Veltri

Krasnova H., Veltri, N.F., Günther, O. (2012) “Self-disclosure and Privacy Calculus on Social Networking Sites: The Role of Culture,” Business & Information Systems Engineering, 3, 127-135.

Privacy, Online Advertising and Marketing Techniques: The Paradoxical Disappearance of the User

by Vian Bakir

Co-written with Andy McStay. Published in Ethical Space: the International Journal of Communication Ethics, 3(1), (2006)

The critiques literatures on new media and cybercultures, online privacy regulation, and online marketing techniques... more The critiques literatures on new media and cybercultures, online privacy regulation, and online marketing techniques to explore their effacement of users.

KONY 2012 and the Webcam Spy Trial: Ethical and Media Issues

by Carolyn Alongi McDonough

The hyper-viral KONY 2012 video and Webcam Spy Trial remind us that persuasion in media is fundamentally related to... more The hyper-viral KONY 2012 video and Webcam Spy Trial remind us that persuasion in media is fundamentally related to power (see Borchers) whether through the lens of an over-zealous film maker or the closing argument of a skilled prosecutor. As audience to these, it is our responsibility to exercise "conscious choice" when evaluating the ethical issues they bring forth in both media and society.

La disciplina della Privacy in Europa, prospettive immediate

by Manuel David Masseno

Seminário no Programa de Doutoramento "Comparazione e diritti della persona", na Università degli Studi di Salerno, Itália. 07/05/2012.

Dataveillance and e-surveillance. A critical case study of the usage of Social Netwroking Sites by students in Sassari

by Massimo Ragnedda

LiSS Conference 3: "The State of Surveillance", Barcelona 29 May- 1st June 2012

The paper presents some theoretical considerations arise from empirical research conducted on the students from the... more The paper presents some theoretical considerations arise from empirical research conducted on the students from the University of Sassari, Italy (n: 1047). Students have little knowledge about the laws in Italy that regulate surveillance and they underestimate the extent of dataveillance and e-surveillance. Some interesting findings include: only 30.9% of respondents were aware that Facebook is always allowed to collect and store data on their information behaviour (meaning that around 70% didn’t know) and only 23.9% knew that Facebook is allowed to reuse and resell personal data (so more than 3 out of 4 students didn’t know). However, half of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that private firms have strong interests in gathering the personal data of Internet users. Furthermore, 58.5% knew that the advertising clients of Facebook are allowed to gather data on users’ information consumption. In considering this date within a wider framework of data surveillance, this paper also explores the connexions between such attitudes and knowledge of and attitudes towards surveillance by social networking sites.

Ensuring Data Confidentiality And Privacy In Mobile Ad hoc Networks

by Hamza Aldabbas

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are autonomous systems which are comprised of a number of mobile nodes that... more Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are autonomous systems which are comprised of a number of mobile nodes that communicate between themselves by wireless communication in a peer-to-peer basis. They are self-organized, self-configured and self-controlled infrastructure-less networks. Nodes can communicate with each other without any pre-planned or a base station. Disseminating information securely between these nodes in such networks however is a challenging task, particularly when the information is confidential. Revealing such information to anyone else other than the intended nodes could be highly damaging, especially in military applications where keeping the message secret from adversaries is essential. In this paper we present our novel framework for privacy control in mobile ad hoc networks in which privacy policies are attached to messages as they are send between peers. We evaluate our framework using the Network Simulator (NS-2) to provide and check whether the privacy and confidentiality of the originator are met. For this we implemented the privacy enforcement as an NS2 agent that manages and enforces the policies attached to packets at every node in the MANET.

Identifiability in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

by Noriswadi Ismail

Book Review: Personal data protection in Malaysia - law and practice, A.B. Munir, S.H. Mohd Yasin, in: Sweet & Maxwell Asia, Hardback (2010), ISBN 978-967-5040-59-7.

by Noriswadi Ismail

Cursing the Cloud (or) Controlling the Cloud?

by Noriswadi Ismail

Selected issues regarding the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010

by Noriswadi Ismail

Who Do They Think They’re Talking To? Framings of the Audience by Social Media Users

by David Brake

International Journal of Communication, Vol 6 (2012) http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/932

This article examines the understandings and meanings of personal information sharing online using a predominantly... more This article examines the understandings and meanings of personal information sharing online using a predominantly symbolic interactionist analytic perspective and focusing on writers’ conceptions of their relationships with their audiences. It draws on an analysis of in-depth interviews with 23 personal bloggers. They were found to have limited interest in gathering information about their audiences, appearing to assume that readers are sympathetic. A comprehensive and grounded typology of imagined relationships with audiences was devised. Although their blogs were all public, some interviewees appeared to frame their blogging practice as primarily self-directed, with their potential audiences playing a marginal role. These factors provide one explanation for some forms of potentially risky self-exposure observed among social media users.

Data protection ed attività di impresa. Verso dove guardano gli USA?

by alessandro mantelero

published in Diritto dell'informazione e dell'informatica, 2011, pp. 457-476

keywords: diritto comparato - dati personali - Stati Uniti [comparative law - data protection - U.S.]
more keywords: diritto comparato - dati personali - Stati Uniti [comparative law - data protection - U.S.]

abstract: il saggio esamina le recenti tendenze emerse nel dibattito istituzionale statunitense in merito alla regolamentazione della protezione dei dati personali  [The paper analyzes from a comparative perspective the recent reform proposals emerged in the U.S. debate about the regulation of the protection of personal data]

Osmanlı Toplumunda mahremiyetin Sınırlarına Dair

by Fikret Yılmaz

Cross-cultural Communication: Arab and Welsh students’ use of Facebook

by Gwen Bouvier

Co-authored with Wail A. Barry, published in Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, 4(2-3): 159-178

This study focuses on the major sociocultural attributes of communication via Facebook in two different geographical... more This study focuses on the major sociocultural attributes of communication via Facebook in two different geographical settings. It identifies cross-cultural differences among two different student cohorts in the UAE and the UK.
Sociocultural specificities were addressed by means of quantitative surveying complemented by qualitative interviewing. The social information processing (SIP) theory and Geert Hofstede theory of ‘cultural dimensions’ represented the
epistemological framework for the study.
The findings indicate that although the users shared similar responses in terms of their preferences and uses, the study shows that they differ in certain key points related to online behaviour and communication modes (e.g. preferences for contacting friends), conceptualization of Facebook (an extension to university life or a portal to the world) and issues of privacy (expressing oneself openly). These deviations reflect
essentially a cultural dissimilarity, which is a core point of the study.
Communication scholars are encouraged to study the research implications of new media, especially regarding differences in culture, as it represents a new avenue in the genre of media studies.

Trattamento dei dati personali e diritto a conoscere le proprie origini: due recenti provvedimenti del Garante della «Privacy»

by Maurizio Di Masi

published in Rivista critica del diritto privato, n. 1/2011

SOMMARIO: 1. Protezione dei dati personali v. identità personale? – 2. Alla ricerca della ratio dell’art. 27 l. adoz.... more SOMMARIO: 1. Protezione dei dati personali v. identità personale? – 2. Alla ricerca della ratio dell’art. 27 l. adoz. – 3. Condizioni e limiti della conoscenza delle proprie origini nel nuovo art. 28 l. adoz. – 4. Conoscenza delle ‘radici’ rispetto ai ‘non adottati’: asimmetrie fraterne… – 5. Ricerca tramite i mass media: rapporto tra diritto di cronaca e diritto alla conoscenza delle origini. – 6. Note conclusive.

Social networks – access all areas?

by Reinhardt A. Botha

with Steve Furnell, in Computers Fraud and Security, 2011, pp. 14 - 19.

The widespread popularity of social networking has resulted in many observations about users’ tendencies to share... more The widespread popularity of social networking has resulted in many observations about users’ tendencies to share their personal data too freely, sometimes exposing their personal details, photographs and opinions for the world to see without any restriction. The existence of a resulting risk is clearly evidenced by users’ willingness to become online friends with total strangers, giving full access to their profile in the process. The knock-on consequences of this could range from a basic invasion of privacy through to more active exploitation and identity theft.

Matlock: A Location Obfuscation Technique for Accuracy-Restricted Applications

by Pedro Wightman

Co-authhored with Miguel A. Jimeno, Daladier Jabba and Miguel Labrador
Presented in IEEE WCNC 2012

Location-based information systems (LBIS) have shown growth in the last years thanks to the popularization of cheap... more Location-based information systems (LBIS) have shown growth in the last years thanks to the popularization of cheap GPS-enabled mobile devices with connectivity to the Internet. At the same time, users have made their locations more available than ever, representing a major privacy problem, as attackers could easily determine their victims’ common paths or actual locations. As a result, some techniques have been designed to protect the users’ private information while allowing Location Based Service systems (LBS) to continue growing. Location obfuscation is a technique that alters, substitutes, or generalizes the real location of the users to protect them against malicious attacks. Moreover, there are activities that require a high level of accuracy while also maintaining the protection of the location, such as fleet management or transportation of valuables. In this work, a light-weight and fully reversible location obfuscation technique named Matlock is presented. Matlock, based on matrix obfuscation, requires low computation per operation and hides the location in both spatial and temporal dimensions. The performance evaluation shows how this technique alters the location of paths from different geographical regions, produces a non-morphologically similar path to the original path, and  enerates increasing distance functions between the original and the obfuscated paths, which together should reduce the probability of using estimation techniques to perform deobfuscation of the information.

Keeping the Secrets of the Dead? An Evaluation of the Statutory Framework for Access to Information About Deceased Persons

by Mary Donnelly

Co-authored with Maeve McDonagh, published in Legal Studies, Vol. 31, pp. 42-70, 2011

In England and Wales, the question of access to information about deceased persons is determined under two separate... more In England and Wales, the question of access to information about deceased persons is determined under two separate statutes: the Access to Health Records Act 1990 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This article examines the normative and legal issues raised by access to information about the dead and evaluates the statutory framework. It draws on philosophical and legal sources which support the claim that the dead are owed a moral and legal duty of confidence. However, it also shows that this is not an absolute duty and it identifies the public and private justifications which favor the provision of access to information about the dead. It argues that the current statutory framework is excessively restrictive and that it fails to provide an appropriate context within which interests favoring access may be considered. Accordingly, it argues that the law needs to be reformed and that a specific legislative framework dealing with access to information about the dead should be introduced. The article concludes by setting out some preliminary suggestions regarding the possible form of such a legislative framework.

A Model to Increase the Trust in Service Oriented Architecture

by Mohammad Ghafari

5th Asia Modelling Symposium (AMS), 2011

Disregarding any specific IT system, it can be used only when it satisfies security concerns. System security is as... more Disregarding any specific IT system, it can be used only when it satisfies security concerns. System security is as important as its functionality because, although it may provide too many features, if users can’t trust to the results and data privacy, system is not reliable at all. Along with increased use of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a preferred paradigm for developing business needs, attackers are motivated to concentrate on founding SOA vulnerabilities more than the past. Prominent specifications in nature of SOA like openness and services autonomy have the most security risks. Although during the past few years, many solutions have been emerged to enforce the security goals, they are not enough to achieve desirable security and we need more researches in this area. In this paper we present two approaches for increasing the trust in SOA. At first, we use a hardware named Trusted Platform Module to increase sensitive data privacy. As the second approach, we propose a mechanism for monitoring service providers’ functionality to ensure that previously verified functionality is not changed by threads.