What is the ideological direction of the judges whom President George W. Bush has appointed to the bench during his first term? Until now we have had no quantitative, empirical data to respond to this query. Critics of the President, often liberal Democrats, have suggested that Bush’s judicial appointees are ultra-conservatives who are hostile to the interests of racial minorities, women, the e...

There is currently intense debate about the significance of user consent to data practices. Consent often taken legitimate virtually any practice, no matter how invasive. Many scholars argue, however, that typically so defective as be ‘meaningless’ and privacy should thus protected by substantive legislation does not rely (or heavily) on consent. I argue both views rest serious mistakes validit...

The ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF) is an emerging concept that refers to an individual’s ability to have data collected about themselves permanently deleted or “destroyed”—the final stage of the information life cycle. However, we do not yet understand where RTBF fits into existing theory and models of privacy concerns. This is due, at least in part, to the lack of validated instruments to asse...

The debate on people’s right to privacy and on the meaning of privacy is ongoing worldwide, for example in Europe over the newly adopted General Data Protection Regulation. By contrast, works in the area of formal e-voting privacy analysis, which aim at assessing the privacy preservation of a target e-voting system by means of mathematical rigour, appear to have reached a well-known plateau. Th...

Anonymity is generally conceived to be an integral part of user’s right to privacy. Without anonymity, many online activities would become prone to eavesdropping, making them potentially risky to use. This work highlights on the different aspects closely related to anonymity and argues that it is rather a multifaceted and contextual concept. To support this argumentation, the paper examines as ...