The paper aims at addressing the problem of what makes specific aiding to decide within public policy making problem situations. Under such a perspective it analyses some basic concepts such as “public policy”, “deliberation”, “legitimation”, “accountability” and shows the necessity to expand the concept of rationality which is expected to be behind the acceptability of a public policy. We then...

How to enforce privacy policies to protect sensitive personal data has become an urgent research topic for security researchers, as very little has been done in this field apart from some ad hoc research efforts. The sticky policy paradigm, proposed by Karjoth, Schunter, and Waidner, provides very useful inspiration on how we can protect sensitive personal data, but the enforcement is very weak...

Introduction. Technical improvements of detection and transmission of location information, together with the widespread adoption of mobile communication devices and location-based services for business, social or informational purposes, are increasing the privacy concerns. Better, more elaborated solutions are necessary to provide users (Rule Makers, as they are called in geopriv) the possibil...

In this paper meta-policies for access control policies are presented. There has been a lot of research into the various ways of specifying policy for a single domain. Such domains are autonomous and can be managed by the users or by a specific system administrator. It is often helpful to have a more general policy description in order to restrict the ways in which policy can be modified. Meta-...