Traditionally, it has been assumed that providing greater data access and/or data utility results in lower privacy/confidentiality. Hence, there is a general feeling that there is no way to provide complete data access and high data utility while also maintaining a low level of disclosure risk. Our research in this area has shown that it is possible to achieve both objectives for confidential n...

Online trust is growing in importance. Consumers and businesses, feeling the pressure of economic downturn and terrorism, increasingly look to buy from and do business with the most trusted Web sites. Companies’ perception of customer trust has steadily evolved from being a construct involving security and privacy issues to a multidimensional, complex construct that includes credibility, emotio...

background: this study aimed to evaluate the design of emergency departâ­ments regarding to the patients’ and staff's privacy, confidentiality and facilities in genâ­eral teaching hospitals. methods: emergency departments of all the general teaching hospitals of shahid beâ­heshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran were evaluated in 2007 through both direct observation and interview ...

According to Islamic teachings, human being moves towards perfection if conditions conducive to His/her calmness are realized at home. According to this view, 'house' represents 'family' and a Muslim's home is regarded as Sacred and private. There is an inherent tendency in human being towards privacy, the most important of which is realized at home. Therefore, if privacy is trespassed at ho...

Nowadays Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have appeared in lots of identification and authentication applications. In some sensitive applications, providing secure and confidential communication is very important for end-users. To this aim, different RFID authentication protocols have been proposed, which have tried to provide security and privacy of RFID users. In this paper, we a...