Withholding Certificates and Self-Certifications under FATCA

Withholding life prolonging treatment, and self deception.

OBJECTIVES To compare non-treatment decision making by general practitioners and geriatricians in response to vignettes. To see whether the doctors' decisions were informed by ethical or legal reasoning. DESIGN Qualitative study in which consultant geriatricians and general practitioners (GPs) randomly selected from a list of local practitioners were interviewed. The doctors were asked whethe...

Don’t lose sleep over FATCA compliance

IT Security Certifications: Stakeholder Evaluation and Selection

Information technology (IT) security certifications have proliferated in recent years. However they differ in regards to stakeholder considerations of credibility, accessibility and relevance. Key stakeholders with an interest in selecting an IT security certification (IT security professionals, employers, governments and higher education institutes) lack a systematic approach for differentiati...

ACTraversal: Ranking Crowdsourced Commonsense Assertions and Certifications

Building commonsense knowledge bases is a challenging undertaking. While we have witnessed the successful collection of large amounts of commonsense knowledge by either automatic text mining or games with a purpose (GWAP), such data are of limited precision. Verifying data is typically done with repetition, which works better for very large data sets. Our research proposes a novel approach to d...

Self-Blindable Credential Certificates from the Weil Pairing

We describe two simple, efficient and effective credential pseudonymous certificate systems, which also support anonymity without the need for a trusted third party. The second system provides cryptographic protection against the forgery and transfer of credentials. Both systems are based on a new paradigm, called self-blindable certificates. Such certificates can be constructed using the Weil ...