Inappropriate disclosure and use of personal health information could have severe adverse consequences for the individual to whom it pertains, but non-disclosure could adversely affect other individuals or the society. In Australia efforts are under way to develop legislation that will address the protection of confidential health information. Development of large-scale health information repos...

An identity-based anonymous agent privacy protection scheme is proposed to deal with the problems of privacy information disclosure. In this paper, some analysis about the status quo of the privacy protection research in China and some partitioning of privacy data in ecommerce are given. We further illuminate the whole process of privacy protection by an ecommerce privacy protection scheme base...

0 Abstract In this article we compare recent findings from focus group research on electricity information disclosure in Switzerland with consumer research in the US. On the basis of the results, we provide an overview of disclosure schemes in the US and in Europe. Our aim is to summarize the key issues of electricity disclosure from a residential customer's point of view and to underline the p...

This paper describes an evaluation of the disclosure protection methods for the Individual Tax Model Public Use File (PUF) released by the Statistics of Income (SOI) Program of the Internal Revenue Service. The purpose of this evaluation is to explore options to strengthen disclosure protection while limiting information loss for tax returns with high incomes. We first present the introduction ...

With the advent of social networks where people disclose a lot of their information and opinions publicly, this research attempted to re-look at the effect of environmental lighting on willingness and actual disclosure of personal information. Previous literatures mostly addressed counseling setups and the findings were mixed. In order to clarify the effect of lighting on self-disclosure, two e...

Title of Document: THE EFFECT OF LIFE-CYCLE COST DISCLOSURE ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR Matthias Deutsch, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Directed By: Professor Matthias Ruth, School of Public Policy For more than 20 years, analysts have reported on the so-called “energy paradox” or the “energy efficiency gap”, referring to the fact that economic agents could in principle lower their total cost at current ...