We live in interesting times of continuous flux, and this is especially true of data privacy. Indeed the world of privacy is changing, and changing fast: many new initiatives and international agreements on data privacy are being negotiated and the existing international data privacy frameworks, such as the Council of Europe Convention 108, the OECD Guidelines, have recently been revised. Last,...

This paper investigates to which degree privacy and security knowledge and global information privacy concern of a user influence mobile protection behavior. We performed a survey with 154 participants. The results of the survey suggest that both privacy and security knowledge and global information privacy concern are influential for mobile protection behavior. We find that low knowledge and l...

The participatory sensing paradigm, through the growing availability of cheap sensors in mobile devices, enables applications of great social and business interest, e.g. electrosmog exposure measurement, early earthquake detection, etc. However, users’ privacy concerns regarding their activity traces need to be adequately addressed first. Existing static privacy-enabling approaches, which hide ...

The concept of privacy has rarely featured explicitly in Australian law and legal discourse. The modest prominence it currently enjoys is due mainly to the enactment and gradual extension in coverage of data protection legislation, most notably in the form of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This is not to say that the interest in privacy remains unprotected by other elements of the law in Australia...

A number of authors have observed a duality between privacy protection and copyright protection, and, in particular, observed how digital rights management technology may be used as the basis of a privacy protection system. In this paper, we describe our experiences in implementing a privacy protection system based on the Intellectual Property Management and Protection ("IPMP") components of th...

The number of electronic commerce (e-commerce) transactions has grown extraordinarily with widespread Internet usage. The right to privacy is particularly important in e-commerce. Recently, the privacy protection for consumer transactions has become more and more important in e-commerce. This paper aims to develop the study on the legislation of e-commerce consumer rights protection. It is a co...

This paper presents a new framework for assessing and documenting the privacy risks associated with developing and managing internet applications. The Framework for Assessing Privacy of Internet Applications (FAPIA) provides a tool to aid the analysis of privacy risks and a structured means of analyzing the risks and documenting a control systems to ensure compliance with data protection and pr...

U.S. Government Web sites are rapidly increasing the services they offer, but users express concerns about their personal privacy protection. To earn user’s trust, these sites must show that personal data is protected, and the sites contain explicit privacy policies. This research studied privacy policy protection of 50 U.S. Senate sites and found that few had comprehensive elements of privacy ...