Third-Party Software's Trust Quagmire

Third-Party Assurances: The Road to Trust in Online Retailing

Consumer trust of Internet vendors is a major factor influencing the success of e-commerce. To enhance consumer trust, many e-retailers are experimenting with various trust-building strategies, including participation in third-party assurance programs. This study presents a model describing the relationship between trust and online purchasing, as well as related relationships with antecedents t...

When Can We Trust a Third Party? - A Soundness Perspective

Organizations often do not want to reveal the way a product is created or a service is delivered. As a consequence, if two organizations want to cooperate, they contact a trusted third party. Each specifies how it wants to communicate with the other party. The trusted third party then needs to assure that the two organizations cooperate correctly. In this paper, we study requirements on trusted...

Party Pooper: Third-Party Libraries in Android

Third-party libraries (3PLs), such as advertising networks, gaming networks, and analytics engines, are an integral part of modern mobile platforms. If Android developers want to integrate functionality provided by 3PLs, they must bundle opaque binary code into their applications. Unfortunately, developers must in essence overprivilege their Android applications by requesting dangerous permissi...

Third-Party Decision

Characteristic Third-Party Opinions

A Note on Handling Information Known to the Opinion Preparer A Note on Handling Excluded Opinions § 9:1 The Three-Set Opinion Pattern § 9:2 Identifying and Defining the Party Whose Status Is at Issue A Note on Entity Formation § 9:3 Opinions as to Entity Status A Note on the Significance of Status Opinions § 9:3.1 Incorporated Status, Organization, and Valid Existence [A] Incorporation [B] Orga...