for goal of transparency, listed companies are required to disclose their significant events, quarterly reports and the decisions taken in their general meetings. of course, when the dissemination of information might prejudice a company’s interests, it can withhold the disclosure on condition that it keeps the information confidential. this article, by using american and english experiences, s...

Little information is available about sexual risk, protective, and disclosure practices among Black bisexually active men and how these may be amenable to intervention when necessary. In-depth interviews were conducted with 30 at-risk urban Black men who have sex with both men and women (MSMW). Participants reported protecting themselves and their partners through routine HIV testing, using con...

literature on self-disclosure and the Internet, in particular by focusing on disclosure in computer-mediated communication (CMC) and web-based forms – both to surveys and in e-commerce applications. We also consider the links between privacy and self-disclosure, and the unique challenges (and opportunities) that the Internet poses for the protection of privacy. Finally, we propose three critica...

Dissemination of data with sensitive information about individuals has an implicit risk of unauthorized disclosure. Perturbative masking methods propose the distortion of the original data sets before publication, tackling a difficult tradeoff between data utility (low information loss) and protection against disclosure (low disclosure risk). In this paper we describe how information loss and d...

The US Security and Exchange Commission implemented Regulation Fair Disclosure in 2000, requiring that an issuer must make relevant information disclosed to any investor available to the general public in a fair manner. Focusing on firms that are affected by the regulation, we propose a model that characterizes the behavior of two types of investors—one professional investor and many small inve...

In studies of people’s privacy behavior, the extent of disclosure of personal information is typically measured as a summed total or a ratio of disclosure. In this paper, we evaluate three information disclosure datasets using a six-step statistical analysis, and show that people’s disclosure behaviors are rather multidimensional: participants’ disclosure of personal information breaks down int...

It is customary for statistical agencies to audit tables containing suppressed cells to ensure that there is sufficient protection against inadvertent disclosure of sensitive information. If the table contains rounded values, this fact may be ignored by the audit procedure. This oversight can result in over-protection, reducing the utility of the published data. In this paper, we provide a corr...

This study investigated the association between trust in individuals, social institutions and online trust on the disclosure of personal identifiable information online. Using the Internet attributes approach that argues that some structural characteristics of the Internet such as lack of social cues and controllability are conducive to a dishinbitive behavior it was expected that face to face ...

companies' continuity, because all companies have some relations with the society;therefore, the society provides long-term survival of the company.in this way, companies in addition to economic responsibility, must take responsibilityof social issues. therefore, with respect to corporate social responsibility andits revelations, the current paper examines the relationship between social r...

concern for the protection of the weak party is a characteristic of contemporary french contract law. in the area of the obligation to provide information, the question arises as to what criterion should be applied to distinguish the weak party from the one placed in a position of power: on what basis is the party in the inferior position protected by jurisprudence and by the legislator in the ...