Challenges and Open Problems of Legal Document Anonymization

Publishing Open-Access Biomedical Data: Legal Challenges

This review article gives a brief overview of some of the key legal challenges the OpenScienceLink, http://opensciencelink.eu (hereafter OSL) project faced with publishing biomedical research data online on an open access and re-use basis. Firstly, we give an overview of some of the key privacy challenges that the OSL project faced. Secondly, we analyse the intellectual property challenges that...

Sanitization and Anonymization of Document Repositories

Information security and privacy in the context of the World Wide Web (WWW) is an important issue that is still being investigated. However, most of the present research is dealing with access control, and authentication-based trust. Especially with the popularity of WWW, being one of the largest information sources, privacy of the individuals is now as important as the security of information....

Medical Travel: The Ethical and Legal Challenges

Medical tourism is a term referring to the people traveling to other countries to obtain medical care. Like any other rapid growing indus­try, medical tourism has prompted ethical and legal issues. These issues are mainly pertained to malpractice and consumer protection. Beside these, risk management, foreign hospital liabilities, international ad­vocacy, facility ownership, intellectual proper...

Semantic Subtyping: Challenges, Perspectives, and Open Problems

Semantic subtyping is a relatively new approach to define subtyping relations where types are interpreted as sets and union, intersection and negation types have the corresponding set-theoretic interpretation. In this lecture we outline the approach, give an aperçu of its expressiveness and generality by applying it to the λ-calculus with recursive and product types and to the π-calculus. We th...

Interoperability-Centric Problems: New Challenges and Legal Solutions