This work discusses the main challenges and requirements of technical and legal authentication interoperability in eservices involving organizations from different countries. We present the Stork cross-border authentication framework that satisfies these requirements by establishing interoperability between existing European national eID infrastructures in a federated manner. As a sample applic...

Establishing trustworthiness requires an analysis of the business, technical and legal requirements for each party to a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) based transaction. Much of the current discussion about PKI requirements revolves around the license, accreditation, or other sets of ratings as applied to certification authorities (CA). It is becoming apparent that an exclusive focus on CA qua...

With the General Data Protection Regulation there will be a legal obligation for controllers to conduct a Data Protection Impact Assessment for the first time. This paper examines the new provisions in detail and examines ways for their successful implementation. It proposes a process which operationalizes established requirements ensuring the appropriate attention to fundamental rights as warr...

Modern goal-oriented requirements engineering frameworks use modeling as a means of better understanding a domain, leading to an overall improvement in the quality of the requirements. Regulations and laws impose additional context and constraints on software goals and can limit the satisfaction of stakeholder needs. Organizations and software developers need modeling tools that can properly ad...

This paper deals with the product design, engineering, and material selection intended for the manufacturing of an eco-friendly chair. The final product is expected to combine design attributes with technical and legal feasibility with the implementation of new bio-based materials. Considering the industrial design, a range of objectives and trends were determined after setting the market requi...

The sharing of medical data between different healthcare organizations in Europe must comply with the legislation of the Member State where the data were originally collected. These legal requirements may differ from one state to another. Privacy requirements such as patient consent may be subject to conflicting conditions between different national frameworks as well as between different legal...

Due to the democratisation of new technologies, computer forensics investigators have to deal with volumes of data which are becoming increasingly large and heterogeneous. Indeed, in a single machine, hundred of events occur per minute, produced and logged by the operating system and various software. Therefore, the identification of evidence, and more generally, the reconstruction of past even...

Most differences, shortcomings and contradictions regarding voluntary informed consent for participation in clinical research relate to the South African-specific guidance documents, i.e. South African Guidelines for Good Practice in the Conduct of Clinical Trials with Human Participants in South Africa (2006) and Ethics in Health Research: Principles, Structures and Processes (2004). These doc...

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. These technologies allow communications between patient and medical staff with convenience as well as the transmission of medical, imaging and health informatics data from one site to another. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. A...