Due to the increased global reliance on information technology, and the prominence of information resources value, identity theft is a problem domain effecting millions of computer users annually. The realities of identity theft are highly visible in the global media, although empirical investigations on the topic are limited. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze perceptions of ...

We addressed the question of whether private health care is illegal in Canada by surveying the health insurance legislation of all 10 provinces. Our survey revealed multiple layers of regulation that seem to have as their primary objective preventing the public sector from subsidizing the private sector, as opposed to rendering privately funded practice illegal. Private insurance for medically ...

"Coercion of Voluntary Patients in an Open Hospital" was written twenty years ago when I was training as an intern in a small psychiatric hospital. The article was a first in the literature an analysis of the oppression and control of psychiatric patients in an allegedly open, humanistically oriented psychiatric hospital. Unhappily, the article remains a Hrst. I know of no other similar analysi...

Recent advances in mobile communications, location/sensing technologies and data processing are boosting the deployment of context-aware services and smart spaces creation. This is reflected in urban environments by the smart-city vision, a city with advanced ICT and surveillance infrastructures offering to citizens a diversity of services. Nevertheless, privacy risks and threats ambush, since ...

Although it is known that businesses report cybercrime to public authorities at a low rate, and this hinders prevention strategies, there lack of research on companies’ decisions cyber victimisation. This paper analyses the UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey explore factors associated with reporting by businesses. Results indicate type relevant decision, likelihood increases when cybersecurity i...

Although mobile phones can help us stay connected with friends, family, and colleagues, these personal communication devices can also isolate us from the world around us by drawing our attention into a private digital realm. In contrast, public displays can catalyze conversation with people nearby. Mobile phones with integrated pico projectors have the potential to combine the phone’s computati...

In the vision of an ambient intelligent world, innumerable small interconnected devices will surround us and support us in our daily tasks and while at leisure. To do so, these devices need to know and exchange our personal preferences. Moreover, without any built-in countermeasures these devices are more than able to collect much more private information. This paper presents the goals and aims...

Cloud services are increasingly being used for a variety of purposes, including e-mail, social networking, music streaming, calendar management, file storage etc. In recent times the evolution of cloud services from private applications to corporate usage has been observed. This has led to the question of how private and business cloud services can be dual-accessed through a single device, in p...

König (1989) argues that there is a relation of duality between concessive and causal constructions. Therefore, he maintains, any account of the meaning of causal connectives like because, via duality, also provides an account of the meaning of concessive connectives such as although. This paper lists a number of problems with König's account. Appealing to notions central to relevance theory, i...