AUTHOR Richard Howley, Simon Rogerson, Ben Fairweather and Lawrence Pratchett ABSTRACT The ETHICOMP decade may also be seen as the ‘data protection decade’. It was on the 24th October 1995 that the Draft General Directive on ‘the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and at the free movement of such […]
AUTHOR Piotr Pawlak ABSTRACT The undertaken by me subject is placed in the area of problems of communication field, in its intercultural dimension. I would like to devote attention of my report to the process of cultural diffusion in informative society. I will treat the Internet as main tool as well as platform for that […]
AUTHOR Nicholas A. Wagner and Ian H. MacGregor ABSTRACT With most adults in the western world now transitioned into e-mail use, an untold amount of textual information is available on personal interests and preferences. The vast majority of such e-mail, whether private or job-related, belongs to corporations. Whether the e-mail account in question is set […]
AUTHOR Andy Bissett ABSTRACT Most institutions that carry out research, whether involving human subjects or not, are formulating ethical policies to cover their research if they have not already done so. Indeed, apart from encouraging and advertising good ethical ‘health’, many major research funding organisations (the Wellcome Trust, the European Community under Framework 6, to […]
AUTHOR Mario Arias, Teresa Torres, Mar Souto and Rosa Queralt ABSTRACT Nowadays the emergence of new organizational designs are a fact. The working conditions and social consequences of new organizational models should be under revision. An important body of literature on occupational psychosocial factors has identified certain job and organizational characteristics as having deleterious effects […]
AUTHOR Maria Canellopoulou-Bottis ABSTRACT In 1998 Iceland passed a bill that gave a biomedical company the right to combine all of the country’s genetic, medical and genealogical information in one database. This bill was the Health Sector Database Act. This project has probably been the largest, in health informatics of this kind, as Iceland’s total […]