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Personal Digital Assistants: The Need for Governance

New technologies such as voice-based personal digital assistants (PDA) provide many benefits and new efficiencies however, there are a number of ways in which PDAs could be used that can create new ethical and legal issues. This article discusses the conceptual and practical challenges around PDAs and their impact on digital governance.

Digital Trust - Trusted Computing and Beyond: A Position Paper

Along with the invention of computers and interconnected networks, physical societal notions like security, trust, and privacy entered the digital environment. The concept of digital environments begins with the trust (established in the real world) in the organisation/individual that manages the digital resources.  This paper looks at digital trust from the point of view of security and examines how valid trust approaches from other domains are now making their way into secure computing.

TURP: Managing Trust for Regulating Privacy in Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as smart home or ambient-assisted living systems, promise useful services to end users. Most of these services rely heavily on sharing and aggregating information among devices, many times raising privacy concerns. This paper presents a technique, where an IoT device collects information from others, evaluates the trustworthiness of the information sources to decide the suitability of sharing information with others. 

Posterior Trust: Behavior Driven Trust on a Network Graph at Scale

Mobile networks can connect everyone with a simple call or message and recent years have seen a dramatic increase in abuse through robocalling and messaging.