Currently in the United States there is no federally recognized parentchild privilege. The U.S. Supreme Court has never granted certiorari in a case involving the recognition of a parent-child privilege. For many, it is a revelation to learn that the government can compel testimony about communications and observations between parents and their children. Scholars have written about the social p...

Privilege separation has long been considered as a fundamental principle in software design to mitigate the potential damage of a security attack. Much effort has been given to develop various privilege separation schemes where a monolithic OS or hypervisor is divided into two privilege domains where one domain is logically more privileged than the other even if both run at an identical process...

This paper presents Privilege Calculus (PC) as a new approach of knowledge representation for Separation of Duty (SD) in the view of process and intents to improve the reconfigurability and traceability of SD. PC presumes that the structure of SD should be reduced to the structure of privilege and then the regulation of system should be analyzed with the help of forms of privilege.

This article discusses what happens to testimonial privilege following a patient's death. First, the article reviews the concepts of confidentiality and testimonial privilege. Second, the article discusses the case of Jaffe v. Redmond, in which the Supreme Court ruled that testimonial privilege applies to licensed psychotherapists under Rule 501 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Third, the arti...

Privilege separation is a fundamental security concept that has been used in designing many secure systems. A number of recent works propose redesigning web browsers with greater privilege separation for better security. In practice, however, privilege-separated designs require a fine balance between security benefits and other competing concerns, such as performance. In fact, performance overh...

Immune privilege is extended to allogeneic tissues placed into the anterior chamber of the eye and results in part from the induction of anterior chamber-associated immune deviation (ACAID)--a condition in which the host is capable of making humoral antibodies and cytotoxic T cells specific for the antigens in question, but is selectively suppressed in its capacity to generate delayed-type hype...

Recently, it is widespread for malware to collect sensitive information owned by third-party applications as well as to escalate its privilege to the system level (the highest level) on the Android platform. An attack of obtaining root-level privilege in an Android environment can form a serious threat to users from the viewpoint of breaking down the whole security system. This paper proposes a...