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  1-10 of 114 Reviews about "Governmental Issues (K.5.2)": Date Reviewed
  European data protection: coming of age
Gutwirth S., Leenes R., de Hert P., Poullet Y.,  Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2013. 451 pp. Type: Book (978-9-400751-84-2)

This collection of papers from presentations at the 2012 Computer, Privacy, and Data Protection Conference provides an overview of the latest thinking on data protection in the European Union (EU). The book’s optimistic...

May 29 2013
  Resistance, liberation technology and human rights in the digital age
Ziccardi G.,  Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2012. 336 pp. Type: Book (978-9-400752-75-7)

Human rights seem to be in the news continuously. This book combines that topic with digital technology and thoughts on the Arab Spring (resistance and some form of liberation). One might expect a lively and perhaps contradictory read, but that...

Jan 23 2013
  Cyber fraud: tactics, techniques and procedures
Howard R.,  Auerbach Publications, Boston, MA, 2009. 520 pp. Type: Book (978-1-420091-27-4)

I was looking forward to reading and reviewing this book because, at present, very few books are dedicated to this topic. Although other books [1,2] already partially address related areas, such as malware and cyber security, none has tried to...

Mar 7 2012
  Networks and states: the global politics of Internet governance
Mueller M.,  The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010. 280 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262014-59-5)

Internet governance has become a point of international conflict among states, and a target of transnational policy advocates from business and civil society. Starting from this definition of the problems, the author discusses the history of...

Sep 14 2011
  Cyberwarfare: connecting the dots in cyber intelligence
Goel S.  Communications of the ACM 54(8): 132-140, 2011. Type: Article

Goel was involved in a 2010 investigation of cyberattacks against US power grids. What is insightful is this article’s overview of the forms in which cyberwar may occur and the difficulty of attributing an attack to a particular government. ...

Sep 14 2011
  International handbook of Internet research
Hunsinger J., Klastrup L., Allen M.,  Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2010. 512 pp. Type: Book (978-1-402097-88-1)

Hunsinger, Klastrup, and Allen have put together a valuable book consisting of 31 essays, research reports, and professional papers on Internet issues, research, controversies, and more. The book could be useful as a personal reference, or as a...

Aug 4 2011
  Parameterized complexity of control problems in maximin election
Liu H., Zhu D.  Information Processing Letters 110(10): 383-388, 2010. Type: Article

An active stream of research seeks to understand the computational complexity of election attacks that attempt to influence outcomes. One of the most interesting types of attack is a control attack, in which an actor tries to achieve some goal by ...

Jul 28 2011
  The impact of trust, risk and optimism bias on e-file adoption
Schaupp L., Carter L.  Information Systems Frontiers 12(3): 299-309, 2010. Type: Article

Trust is fundamental in any social interaction. This research uniquely attempts to measure trust and related factors, as predictors of the willingness to use the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS’s) electronic tax filing system. This...

Nov 16 2010
  Beyond economics for guiding large public policy issues: lessons from the Bell System divestiture and the California electricity crisis
Sueyoshi T.  Decision Support Systems 48(3): 457-469, 2010. Type: Article

This is a disturbing report on two instances of high-level government decisions and actions, with far-reaching and pervasive effects, based on empirical results in economics. The message of the paper is that these decisions and actions were...

Nov 4 2010
  Semantic technologies for e-government
Vitvar T., Peristeras V., Tarabanis K.,  Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2010. 321 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642035-06-7)

As more and more of the world becomes Web based, special challenges have emerged in implementing e-government applications, especially applying Web 2.0 and related technologies. To help meet this challenge, the European Union (EU) has funded...

Aug 17 2010
 
 
 
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