committed the federal government to a process of "Administrative Simplification" to reduce healthcare costs, but Congress wanted to limit how far the healthcare industry could externalize attendant privacy risks to patients.4 Yet, in the aftermath, what should have been a substantial victory for patient autonomy and informational privacy has morphed into yet another divisive debate about profes...

European data protection regulation obliges every service provider to show a privacy policy on his web site. Many privacy policies are too long, too complicated to understand, and reading them is hardly appealing. To enhance the user’s awareness on who is collecting and handling their personal data for what purpose and to depict core information of the policy, privacy icons could be used in add...

In the big data era, new technologies and powerful analytics make it possible to collect and analyse large amounts of data in order to identify patterns in the behaviour of groups, communities and even entire countries. Existing case law and regulations are inadequate to address the potential risks and issues related to this change of paradigm in social investigation. This is due to the fact th...

E-business industry and consumers are struggling to find a balance between consumers' privacy and the promotion of the development of online business. Regulation has widely been considered as an appropriate way to resolve regulatory conflicts in e-commerce. A multitude of surveys have investigated privacy attitudes, revealing a general desire among Internet users to protect their privacy. This ...

Whilst the majority of online consumers do not seem to take the privacy characteristics of goods and services into account with their consumption choices, a sizeable proportion consider differences in data collection and processing amongst alternative suppliers when deciding where to buy. Meeting their heterogeneous privacy preferences would require varied privacy regimes between different supp...

T study seeks to clarify the nature of control in the context of information privacy to generate insights into the effects of different privacy assurance approaches on context-specific concerns for information privacy. We theorize that such effects are exhibited through mediation by perceived control over personal information and develop arguments in support of the interaction effects involving...

The debate on people’s right to privacy and on the meaning of privacy is ongoing worldwide, for example in Europe over the newly adopted General Data Protection Regulation. By contrast, works in the area of formal e-voting privacy analysis, which aim at assessing the privacy preservation of a target e-voting system by means of mathematical rigour, appear to have reached a well-known plateau. Th...