E-government has been identified as the next major application of information systems to fundamentally alter how U.S. federal agencies interact with the public. Through a strategy published by the Office of Management and Budget, federal agencies are formulating and executing plans to realize the many expected benefits from e-government. It is not clear, though, whether there is either a normat...

Government agencies typically need to take potential risks of disclosure into account whenever they publish statistics based on their data or give external researchers access collected data. In this context, the promise formal privacy guarantees offered by concepts such as differential seems be panacea enabling quantify and control loss incurred any release exactly. Nevertheless, despite excite...

Interoperability has been identified as a major issue to be addressed by every e-government agency. An interoperability framework aims to provide the basic standards that every department which is relevant for the e-government strategy implementation should adopt. Criteria for selection and inclusion of standards in an interoperability framework are crucial, since they influence the utility tha...