The Google Street View technology has proven to be highly controversial. Especially in a lot of European countries – where privacy and data protection laws are far stricter than e.g. in the United States – the launch of Street View has caused many residents and citizens to issues complaints to government officials about the project thereby claiming that it is a massive intrusion upon privacy an...

In the Web dependent world, companies must respect and protect individuals’ information privacy. Companies develop and implement corporate information privacy policies to comply with the domestic and international information privacy laws and regulations. This paper investigates: (a) the approach used by multinational and domestic companies to develop and implement corporate information privacy...

one of the factors and tools necessary in managing roadside is rules and regulations without which, the area will face serious challenges in terms of the environment. recognizing rules of roadside was investigated in the current research, since some perturbations and irregularities related to the ecosystem of roadside are the results of rules and regulations and also complex damages appeared in...

In 1967, Alan Westin [1] set in motion the foundations of what most Western democracies now think of as privacy when he published his book, Privacy and Freedom. He defined privacy as ”the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others.” His careful collection of sociological, legal, and his...

Privacy policies, laws, and guidelines have been cultivated based on overly verbose specifications. This article claims that privacy regulations lend themselves to a firmer language based on a model of flow of personal identifiable information. The model specifies a limited number of situations and acts on personal identifiable information. As an application of the model, the model is applied t...

A public debate exists whether the flow of consumer information should be restricted, and whether privacy laws — such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act for financial institutions — should be amended. We offer a welfare comparison of the three main current policies towards consumer privacy — anonymity, opt in, and opt out — within a two-period address model. These privacy policies shape a firm’s abi...