Parliamentary debates are highly structured transcripts of meetings of politicians in parliament. These debates are an important part of the cultural heritage of many countries; they are often free of copy-right; citizens often have a legal right to inspect them; and several countries make great effort to digitize their entire historical collection and make it available to the general public. T...

"Spoilt Baby into Angry Young Man". Her theme is that the way children are brought up today is so sloppy and spineless that the result is the Angry Young Man. To prove her thesis she has assembled a series of statements, carefully indexed, made by angry adults. This attitude towards the young is a stage we all go through as we get older; let us be thankful that like the young, we also grow out ...

Appearance model is one of the most important components for online visual tracking. An effective appearance model needs to strike the right balance between being adaptive, to account for appearance change, and being conservative, to re-track the object after it loses tracking (e.g., due to occlusion). Most conventional appearance models focus on one aspect out of the two, and hence are not abl...

This paper advances privacy theory through examination of online shaming, focusing in particular on persecution by internet mobs. While shaming is nothing new, the technology used for modern shaming is new and evolving, making it a revealing lens through which to analyze points of analytical friction within and between traditional conceptions of privacy. To that end, this paper first explores t...

Despite the high value that internet users place on privacy, they offer their personal information for low compensations. This behavior, known as the privacy paradox, has been explained by a stream of literature with different behavioral biases, and in particular with hyperbolic discounting. However, economics offers two possible reasons to discount payoffs—costs of waiting and hazard rates—whi...

Accidents and environmental disasters constitute emergency situations whereby paramedics require the largest obtainable amount of medical information on a particular individual in as short a time period as possible. Moreover, patients suffering from medical disorders/conditions, such as dementia, epilepsy, stroke, and cardiac arrest often find themselves in situations requiring immediate interv...

Information privacy is an important consideration when transitioning university collections from paper to electronic access. Yet the protection of -and limits to -student privacy regulations have rarely been addressed in the literature for online electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and its relevance to student work should be a consid...

In the 1973 court case Doe v. Bolton, the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., ruled that a Georgia law regulating abortion [2] was unconstitutional. The Georgia abortion [2] law required women seeking abortions to get approval for the procedure from their personal physician, two consulting physicians, and from a committee at the admitting hospital. Furthermore, under the statutes, only women ...