This article explores the potential of robotics and automation to improve learning outcomes increase access opportunities around world. It examines benefits that can bring education, such as increased efficiency, improved accuracy, collaboration communication, personalized learning. also discusses risks associated with these technologies in terms privacy violations. Finally, it offers strategie...

Privacy and surveillance by intrusion detection are potentially conflicting organizational and legal requirements. In order to support a balanced solution, audit data is inspected for personal data and identifiers referring to real persons are substituted by transaction-based pseudonyms. These pseudonyms are constructed as shares for a suitably adapted version of Shamir’s cryptographic approach...

The broad capabilities of current mobile devices have paved the way for Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) applications. The success of this emerging paradigm strongly depends on the quality of received data which, in turn, is contingent to mass user participation; the broader the participation, the more useful these systems become. This can be achieved if users are gratified for their contributions wh...

Organizational efforts at monitoring employee activity must be perceived as respecting privacy and fairness. However, even when monitoring systems are designed to do so, employees might not be willing to accept and use monitoring technologies. This study examined whether personality moderated the relationship between workplace monitoring system characteristics, fairness, privacy and acceptance....

The past year has seen a growing public awareness of the privacy risks of social networking through personal information that people voluntarily disclose. A spotlight has accordingly been turned on the disclosure policies of social networking sites and on mechanisms for restricting access to personal information on Facebook and other sites. But this is not sufficient to address privacy concerns...

The rising popularity of Web 2.0, such as blogs, forums, online calendars/diaries, etc., makes users more interested in keeping their data on the Web. Sharing of such data could make life more enjoyable and convenient. For example, posting new photos about activities or sharing views about an event can let friends know what a user cares about. However, some of these data (such as a person’s loc...

This article presents an approach for the design of location-based information systems that support privacy functionality. Privacy-enhancing technology (PET) has been available for a considerable amount of time. New online applications and infrastructures for mobile and ubiquitous use have been installed. This has been done without usage of available PET, although they are favored by data prote...

Since the spread of smartphones, researchers now have opportunities to collect more ecological data. However, despite the many advantages of existing databases (e.g., clean data, direct comparison), they may not suit all criteria for a particular experiment, resulting in an unavoidable tradeoff between the gain they provide and the lack of some labels or data sources. In this paper, we introduc...