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This article deals with the ethical considerations raised by the collection, storage and use of biometric data. Comparisons are drawn with human genetic databases. It will be shown that besides ethical assessment of new technologies, it is also interesting to see how the advancement of these technologies has posed challenges to existing ethical frameworks, putting collective values and public interests...
Inter-firm relations have increasingly been analyzed by means of transaction cost economics (TCE). However, as has been widely acknowledged, TCE does not include dynamics of learning, adaptation or innovation, and it does not include trust. It assumes that efficient outcomes arise, while that may be in doubt, due to complexity and path-dependency of interactions between multiple agents that make,...
The trust anchors defined in the DNSSEC and SSL architecture make the governance of the Internet very rigidly aligned with the domain name registrars and the software vendors. The root certification authorities (root CAs) are defined ultimately and built into the software key stores of an end-user. However, the end-user is not given any criteria to distinguish the built-in root CAs so that he is unable...
Openness and trust are key elements to sustaining any successful client-supplier relationship. When the relationship is transitioning from being arms-length to evolving into a true partnership, it is critical to establish a shared understanding of not only the current state, but also of the expected future state. A workshop organized and facilitated by a neutral party, with the senior leadership of...
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