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Scrollini, Mendez Fabrizio. "Right to information arenas : exploring the right to information in Chile, New Zealand and Uruguay." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3361/.
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The Right to Information (RTI) – a right every individual has to access public information held by governments – is now established in more than 100 countries. RTI laws set up a new logic in government: availability of public information is the principle and secrecy the exception. RTI laws create new public information arenas where several actors request, release and use public information for several purposes. In this work, I seek to explore why RTI arenas based on similar principles, work differently leading to different outputs. My explanation is based on a historical- institutionalist perspective arguing that origins of these laws and previous institutional structures matter. I argue that three factors help to shape these arenas: the level of participation in the policy-making process, the professionalisation of state bureaucracy and RTI enforcement institutions. The combination of these factors gives us three different kinds of arenas: functional, mixed and contested. I develop a conceptual framework, operating at a middle-range theory level, to analyse the role RTI laws, requesters, the state, and the existence of RTI enforcement institutions play in each configuration. I show how these arenas evolve and work, running a structured and focused comparison of three case studies: Uruguay, Chile and New Zealand. This work shows how these arenas ended up differing in outputs such as availability of public information and efficiency in processing RTI requests, as well as the existence of effective accountability mechanisms to resolve disputes about public information.
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Grigalashvili, Mariam. "Taxpayers’ rights protection during exchange of information : Whether taxpayers’ rights (right to privacy, participation rights) aresufficiently protected during exchange of information." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-409537.
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Lin, Rongbin. "Managing Autonomy by Hierarchically Managing Information: Autonomy and Information at the Right Time and the Right Place." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4014.
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When working with a complex AI or robotics system in a specific application, users often need to incorporate their special domain knowledge into the autonomous system. Such needs call for the ability to manage autonomy. However, managing autonomy can be a difficult task because the internal mechanisms and algorithms of the autonomous components may be beyond the users' understanding. We propose an approach where users manage autonomy indirectly by managing information provided to the intelligent system hierarchically at three different temporal scales: strategic, between-episodes, and within-episode. Information management tools at multiple temporal scales allow users to influence the autonomous behaviors of the system without the need for tedious direct/manual control. Information fed to the system can be in the forms of areas of focus, representations of task difficulty, and the amount of autonomy desired. We apply this approach to using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to support Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR). This dissertation presents autonomous algorithms/components and autonomy management tools/interfaces we designed at different temporal scales, and provides evidence that the approach improves the performance of the human-robot team and the experience of the human partner.
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Bishop, Cheryl Ann Packer Cathy Lee. "Internationalizing the right to know conceptualizations of access to information in human rights law /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2598.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 5, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication." Discipline: Journalism and Mass Communication; Department/School: Journalism and Mass Communication, School of.
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Skupien, Kathryn Stephanie. "Colors and Mapping: The Right to Receive Information." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4845.
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Color is used in everything we see and do and it often can be used for effect and representation, particularly on maps and transportation signage. This study explores the issues that the color blind population exhibits when viewing these maps and signs. Seeing that 8%#37; of the male population is afflicted with some form of color blindness, it is pertinent that research reflect these issues and take into consideration the Right to Receive Information for this population. A qualitative method using Photovoice and interviews was used to determine whether this population considers itself having a disability and what solutions can be found to assist with issues of seeing colors on transportation maps and signage. Results show that although half of the participants feel they have a disability, they do not want to be categorized with other disabilities or have restrictions placed on them. The overall consensus regarding maps was to use less colors and simplify. One solution to the issue of being able to read maps and signage was to instill the ColorADD Symbol System in the U.S. comprehensively. This study provides insight to the issues faced by the color blind population regarding Right to Receive Information for maps and signage, including alternate solutions to providing color blind people with sufficient materials. The significance of this research can be used to provide safer transportation signage for driving and better maps for traveling.
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Миколаївна, Проскура Ганна, and K. I. Zhebrovska. "ACCESS TO ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION AS A HUMAN RIGHT." Thesis, Сучасна університетська правова освіта і наука: Матер. VIIІ Міжн. наук.-практ. конф. (м. Київ, НАУ, 23 лютого 2018 р.). Том 1. Тернопіль: Вектор, 2018. C. 213-215, 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/32720.
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Sabir, Mammadrzali Shahin. "RENOVATING THE SUBJECT MATTER OF INFORMATION LAW: RIGHT TO EDUCATION IN INFORMATION SOCIETY." Thesis, Сучасна правова освіта: [матеріали VIІ Міжнародної науково-практичної конференції, Київ, Національний авіаційний університет, 23 лютого 2018 р.]. – Тернопіль: «Вектор», 2018, 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/32831.
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Stoll, Jane. "Swedish donor offspring and their legal right to information." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-146449.
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All donor offspring conceived under the Swedish Genetic Integrity Act or the now-repealed Act on Insemination, from gametes donated after 1 March 1985, have the right to obtain identifying information about the donor when they are sufficiently mature. Despite this, studies undertaken in Sweden and abroad reveal that many donor offspring will never be able to exercise their right to information because their parents do not tell them how they were conceived. This study examines the regulatory framework established to facilitate access to identifying information for donor offspring in Sweden; the main objective being to determine whether or not the right to information is an effective legal right. In addition to giving an account of the source and scope of the right under Swedish law, Sweden´s possible obligations to donor offspring under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights are explored. A number of measures that could promote the right to information are also considered.
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Pande, Suchi. "The right to know, the right to live : grassroots struggle for information and work in India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47622/.
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This study attempts to develop an understanding of the iterative and multi-scaled process involved in transforming the state from below by examining the relationship between two of the most politicised rights-based legislations in India: the Right to Information Act (RTI) and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Based on one and a half years of ethnographic and interview based research, and five years of working with the RTI campaign, I examine the reciprocal relationship between the rights to information and work, and the multi-scaled activism necessary to instantiate both. First, I trace different phases of the struggle for the right to information, beginning with the creation of alternative public spheres, Jan sunwais (or rural public hearings) that responded to demands for the right to work in rural Rajasthan. Second, as this demand culminated in a broad-based advocacy network, I examine the role of actors from diverse institutional arenas that succeeded in passing the national RTI legislation. I also look at how the same national network of activists introduced the public accountability mechanism of social audits, inspired by the Jan sunwai, into the new right to work law or NREGA. Finally, bringing the process full circle, I look at the ongoing efforts of the MKKS and the Suchna Evum Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan (The Right to Information and Work Campaign) to implement the right to work on the ground in rural Rajasthan. In contrast to existing studies, I provide a more comprehensive analysis of the interdependent struggle for rights to information and work as one long iterative process to transform the state from below. I conclude with some reflections on the different vision of “transparency” and “accountability” emerging from rural grassroots struggles and what the RTI and NREGA experiences teach us about the possibilities for their realisation.
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Sjöström, Josefin, and Juliana Moreira. "Rätt information vid rätt tillfälle The right information at the right time : En studie av individanpassning av informationsåtkomst på webbplatser An essay on personalization of information access on websites." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-15045.
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Denna studie handlar om individanpassning av informationsåtkomst och syftet med studien är att underlätta för utvecklare som ska ta fram nya, individanpassade lösningar för webben. Denna studie koncentreras till Skatteverkets webbplats. Studien försöker hitta svar på frågan om aktiv individanpassning gör att det blir lättare för användare att hitta vad de söker. En prototyp med en aktiv individanpassning har skapat och sedan jämförts med Skatteverkets webbplats. Detta har gjorts med hjälp av observationer och en tillämpning av tänka-högt-metoden. I resultatet av observationerna har det framkommit att även om respondenterna hittade vad de sökte på kortare tid när det använde Skatteverkets webbplats upplevdes prototypen som lättare att använda. Slutsatsen att en aktiv individanpassning gör det lättare för användaren att hitta rätt information har dragits. En förutsättning för att skapa en aktiv individanpassning är även att man tar hänsyn till användarens behov, kontextualisering, kategorisering och filtrering.The subject of this essay is active personalization of information access. Its main goals are to make it easier for developers to create new, customized solutions for the web. The essay tries to find an answer to the question if personalization of information-access makes it easier for the user to find the information they need. The researchers developed a personalized-access prototype of the Swedish Tax Agency’s website and, through observations compared it with the original. The researchers applied the think-aloud-method in five observations documented as video recordings and observation schedules. In addition, a follow-up with a questionnaire was made after each observation in order to collect additional qualitative data. The observations showed that although the respondents found the information quickly at the Swedish Tax Agency’s website, they experienced the prototype as easier to use. The conclusion is that active personalization can make it easier for the users to find the right information, and that a prerequisite for creating an active personalization is that it takes better into account the user's needs by means of contextualization, categorization and filtering.
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Ahmet, Zeynep. "What Are You Doing And Feeling Right Now?" Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-6168.
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Understanding and capturing game play experiences of players have been of great interest for some time, both in academia and industry. Methods used for eliciting game play experiences have involved the use of observations, biometric data and post-game techniques such as surveys and interviews. This is true for games that are played in fixed settings, such as computer or video games. Pervasive games however, provide a greater challenge for evaluation, as they are games that typically engage players in outdoor environments, which might mean constant movement and a great deal of the players' motor skills engaged for several hours or days. In this project I explored a new method for eliciting different aspects of the game play experience of pervasive game players, specifically focusing on motional states and different qualities of immersion. I have centered this work on self-reporting as a means for reporting these aspects of the game play experiences. However, this required an approach to selfreporting as non-obtrusive, not taking too much of the players’ attention from the game activities as well as provide ease of use. To understand the challenges in introducing a new method into a gaming experience, I focused my research on understanding experience, which is a subjective concept. Even though there are methods aiming at capturing the physiological changes during game play, they don’t capture players’ interpretations of the gaming situation. By combining this with objective measurements, I was able to gain a comprehensive understanding of the context of use. The resulting designs were two tools, iteratively developed and pre-tested in a tabletop role-playing session before a test run in the pervasive game Interference. From my findings I was able to conclude that using self-reporting tools for players to use while playing was successful, especially as the data derived from the tools supported post-game interviews. There were however challenges regarding the design and functionality, in particular in outdoor environments, that suggests improvements, as well as considerations on the use of selfreporting as an additional method for data collection.
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Toyama, Miyagusuku Jorge, and La Rosa Juan Carlos Girao. "Labour GPS: The Employer’s Right of Control regarding New Information Technologies." IUS ET VERITAS, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/123176.
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The authors analyze the exercise of the power of controlregarding new technologies of information. Particularly, the use of GPs Tracking as a tool that the employer relies on to verify that workers fulfill their work. Firstly, the authors explain how these technologies are used at workplaces and their lack of regulation in Peruvian Law. Then, they explain the conditions necessary for not violating the workers’fundamental rights when using this tool. Finally, they discuss the case law and precedents, as well as cases seen by theNational Labour Authority.Los autores analizan el ejercicio de la facultad de fiscalización a partir de las nuevas tecnologías de la información. en concreto, al uso del GPS como herramienta de la que se vale el empleador para cerciorarse que el trabajador cumple con sus labores. en primer lugar, se hace una explicación sobre el uso de estas tecnologías en el ámbito laboral y su falta de previsión por la normativa peruana. A continuación, explican las condiciones necesarias para que el ejercicio del GPS no vulnere los derechos fundamentales del trabajador. Finalmente, se analiza las decisiones y precedentes en la jurisprudencia, así como los casos vistos por la Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalización Laboral.
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Gabriel, James Gregory. "Right Technology, Right Now An Evaluation Methodology for Rapidly Deployable Information and Communications Technologies in Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/6796.
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The most significant technological challenge after a major humanitarian disaster is the rapid deployment of information and communications technologies (ICT) for initial responders. Reliance on ICTparticularly wireless communicationsis essential to a coordinated response, particularly in international disasters due to the large number and diversity of responding organizations. Therefore, choosing the most effective ICT systems for disaster response is a critical factor for ensuring success of the response effort. This research will provide background information related to selecting rapidly deployable ICT resources for disaster responders by exploring U.S. policy, worldwide disaster trends, and U.S. government responses. In addition, this thesis will evaluate ICT challenges that are unique to the post-disaster environment and identify essential characteristics of rapidly deployable ICT systems. Finally, this research will develop a quantifiable methodology based on essential characteristics to evaluate and compare commercially-available ICT systems in order to identify systems best suited for the disaster environment. Revelations will contribute to potential policy recommendations and follow-on research that will facilitate determination of the best ICT options, resulting in more effective cooperative utilization of these technologies to improve post-disaster responsiveness.
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Mwananyanda, Muleya. "Fumbling under the veil : access to information and democracy : the Zambian case." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1224.
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"The references above are illustrative of the fact that an effective right to information is significant to democracy and has an unequivocal basis in international and comparative human rights law. Although international jurisprudence in this area has been ambivalent, in this essay, a mounting body of evidence is produced in support of the proposition that Zambia, as part of the global village is under an obligation to gaurantee citizens a right to access information. ... The work is divided into five chapters. The first chapter introduces the subject and provides a general overview of the study. Chapter two addresses the theoretical framework and international standards in the area of access to information. Chapter three focuses on the South African context in detail and touches on the Ugandan freedom of information regime. The fourth chapter focuses on the situation in Zambia looking at the obvious gaps in relation to global trends as well as what Zambia could borrow from the South African experience and avoid from the Ugandan regime. The practice in terms of accessibility of public information is discussed, and chapter five is the concluding chapter with a summary of the findings in the foregoing chapters, as well as recommendations." -- Introduction.Prepared under the supervision of Prof. Frederick Juuko at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2006.
http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html
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Nisan, Yüce. "Right to be forgotten as a fundamental human right." Thesis, National Aviation University, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/53732.
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Purpose: the main objective of this paper is to study the right to be forgotten as a fundamental human
right and its legal basis. Methods of research: general scientific, philosophical and specially-legal methods
of scientific research have been used. A system analysis method was used to determine the term of the right
to be forgotten and regulations related to the right. The case method and doctrinal research method were
used for determining the general understanding of the right. A dogmatic method was valuable to formulate
conclusions and recommendations of practical character within the research issues concerning the correct
and effective usage of the right. Results: the growing pace and place of the Internet have put the processing
of personal data in a new light, and it is now accepted as a fundamental human right to request to be
removed from any databases under the provisioned circumstances, thus, “to be forgotten.” To examine the
right further, studies have been made both by international and national authorities. While the right to be
forgotten must be exercised with the utmost care, it must be ensured that it does not conflict with the freedom
of expression and freedom of the press; the balance between legal interest and rights must be maintained.
Discussion: it was based on the scope and limitations of the right to be forgotten and the effectiveness of
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Dang, Trung Ha. "Adopting Freedom of Information Law and the Quest for the Right of Access to Information in Vietnam." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380294.
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People have the right to know. More than one hundred countries have adopted Freedom of Information (FOI) laws that provide legal guarantees for protecting the right of access to information (ATI). The passage and further implementation by Vietnam of an FOI law, namely the Law on Access to Information No.104/2016/QH13 (hereinafter referred to as “the LATI 2016”), adopted in April 2016, can possibly enhance the right of ATI in that country. The LATI 2016 was passed with the purpose of providing „for the exercise of the citizens' right of access to information‟1. As such the law is expected to be a turning point for accelerating the enforcement of the right of ATI in Vietnam when it takes effect on July 1, 2018. This study examines whether or not this expectation is justified and if the requisite conditions prevail in Vietnam for implementing a system that gives people access to information.
There is a growing evidence of a consensus that access to certain kinds of information needs to be considered either as a human right or in the context of rights that citizens should have to prosper in their country. This study takes a rights-based approach, and argues that it provides a useful theoretical foundation for investigating the potential impact and implication of FOI laws. The sophistication and level of compliance with FOI laws in countries can vary depending on how aligned they are with human rights ambitions. The alternative instrumentalist approach as to why FOI legislation is enacted ties the regime to pragmatic values, revealing a lack of a consolidation of a theoretical and conceptual framework for understanding and implementing FOI law, and might not go far enough in the cause of protecting the right of ATI.
This study draws on the wider historical, political and economic factors influencing the adoption of the LATI 2016 by Vietnam, which give context for the scope of public disclosure endorsed by the new law and the likely effect of its implementation. It argues that the legal text on its own is overambitious and should not be presumed to create sudden and major institutional changes aimed at securing the right of ATI. The enactment of the LATI 2016 demonstrates a positive transformation in the willingness and the capacity of both suppliers (the state) and demanders (the people) to improve the mechanisms for exercising ATI as a fundamental right of citizens. However, this progress has also been influenced by not only the country‟s economic context but also by the political regime. For the purpose of promoting the right of ATI in Vietnam, the study highlights the need for bottom-up reform, stemming from civil and social demands, rather than a top-down process as has been undertaken over the period of drafting of the LATI 2016. The human rights-based approach taken to ATI in this work indicates that Vietnam is making progress towards deeply reforming their legal framework but much work needs to be done in terms of creating a robust implementation regime.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Law School
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Burnett, Gary E. "'Turn right at the King's Head' : drivers' requirements for route guidance information." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1998. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27347.
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This thesis addresses a fundamental Human Factors question associated with the design of the Human-Machine Interface (HMI) for in-vehicle electronic route guidance systems: what navigation information should such systems provide to drivers? To avoid the development of systems which demand excessive amounts of drivers' attention and processing resources or which are not satisfactory to the intended user population, it is critical that appropriate information is provided when and where needed. However, a review of the relevant literature revealed a paucity of research concerning this issue.
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Larsen, Irene. "Public access to information : reaching the right balance between public and private." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78219.
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This thesis examines the change towards a property-based view of information in the fields of copyright, database protection and data privacy. Focus will be placed on the United States and the European Union, as those territories together are responsible for more than half of the world's Internet population. The thesis will attempt to show that a view of information as personal property is not actually benefiting society in general and is dangerous for future progress: economic, scientific and social. The thesis suggests balancing the restrictions on access to information as a whole, meaning viewing the restrictions in copyright, database protection and privacy laws to see how they together affect access to information. It argues that these fields of law should supplement each other in maximizing social welfare through a baseline of public access as opposed to a baseline of monopoly.
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Delibasis, D. "The right of states to individual self-defense in information warfare operations." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434366.
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Wicker, Tom. "The Right to Know: An Unending Battle." School of Journalism, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/583027.
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The John Peter Zenger Award for Freedom of the Press and the People's Right to Know, 1984 / The Right to Know: An Unending Battle by Tom Wicker, Associate Editor, The New York Times / Carefree, Arizona, October 18, 1984
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Dayan, Michael Oved. "Privacy boundaries : stories of protecting personal autonomy in the information age." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85147.
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In 1890, lawyers Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis conceived of a "sacred" right, the right to "be let alone." They argued for this right as a measure of "retreat from the world" for protection of an individual's "inviolate personality." Their argument was born in response to intrusions made possible with technological developments in printing and photography. For over a 100-year period, the concept of privacy has received attention from a multi-disciplinary collection of scholars. Despite this significant attention, however, relatively little consideration has been paid to conceptualizations of privacy in the everyday. My dissertation utilizes the focus group method to access individuals' stories about privacy in everyday lives. The unit of the story is important because it contains rich connotative language, imbued with meaning. My method of analysis is inspired primarily by Michel de Certeau and Clifford Geertz. This analysis reveals four significant themes, all linking back to Warren and Brandeis's original conceptualization in thinking about privacy in the everyday: it is associated with fears, it is considered a defence against surveillance, it is conceived of in metaphorical terms as a protective boundary, and it protects personal information and individual autonomy. This dissertation explores how individuals articulate these themes. It finds that individuals apply the language of space as a framework in which to believe their privacy is protected from surveillance.
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Kain, Stephen Edward. "The diocesan bishop and confidential information concerning religious being assigned to an external apostolate." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Crounse, Shane. "The fair information principles : a comparison of U.S. and Canadian privacy policy as applied to the private sector /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/8638.
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McKay-Panos, Linda. "The public's right of effective access to information in the environmental assessment process." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ49709.pdf.
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Bergeron, Pierre-Jérôme. "Measuring dependence using information gain when data are length-biased and right-censored." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=80225.
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In epidemiologic studies, prevalent cases with a disease are often identified through a cross-sectional study. These cases are then followed for a fixed period of time at the end of which the subjects will either have failed or have been censored. When interest lies in estimating the survival distribution, from onset, of subjects with the disease one must take into account that the survival times of the cases ascertained in such fashion are left truncated. When it is possible to assume that there has not been any epidemic of the disease over the past period of time that covers the onset times of the subjects, one may assume that the disease has stationary incidence. Under such a stationarity assumption, the survival times of the recruited subjects are called "length-biased". Measures of dependence have been extensively treated in statistical literature. In the context of survival analysis with length-biased data the literature is rather poor. It is the purpose of this thesis to establish a measure of dependence for length-biased right-censored observations.
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Sharma, Prashant. "The right to information act in India : the turbid world of transparency reforms." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/579/.
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The enactment of the national Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2005 has been produced, consumed and celebrated as an important event of democratic deepening in India both in terms of the process that led to its enactment (arising from a grassroots movement) as well as its outcome (fundamentally altering the citizen-state relationship). This thesis problematises this narrative and proposes that the explanatory factors underlying this event may be more complex than thus far imagined. First, the leadership of the grassroots movement was embedded within the ruling elite and possessed the necessary resources as well as unparalleled access to spaces of power for the movement to be successful. Second, the democratisation of the higher bureaucracy along with the launch of the economic liberalisation project meant that the urban, educated, high-caste, upper-middle-class elite that provided critical support to the demand for an RTI Act was no longer vested in the state and had moved to the private sector. Mirroring this shift, the framing of the RTI Act during the 1990s saw its ambit reduced to the government, even as there was a concomitant push to privatise public goods and services. Third, the thesis locates the Indian RTI Act within the global explosion of freedom of information laws over the last two decades, and shows how international pressures, embedded within a reimagining of the role of the state vis-à-vis the market, had a direct and causal impact both on its content, as well as the timing of its enactment. Taking the production of the RTI Act as a lens, the thesis finally argues that while there is much to celebrate in the consolidation of procedural democracy in India over the last six decades, existing economic, social and political structures may limit the extent and forms of democratic deepening occurring in the near future.
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Morris, Jason T. "Information management utilizing Valued Information at the Right Time (VIRT) as applied to a Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) mission." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/08Mar%5FMorris.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2008.Thesis Advisor(s): Hayes-Roth, Rick. "March 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on May 5, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-58). Also available in print.
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Petricevic, Vanja. "The Effects of EU Information on Support for Euroskeptic Radical Right Parties in Europe." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/political_science_theses/14.
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A relatively well established literature already proffers explanations for the persistence of Euroskeptic Radical Right Parties (ERRPs) in Western Europe and for their emergence in the new democracies of the East. The purpose of this study is not to replicate those existing studies; instead, the argument advanced here is that there may be an important intervening factor as yet unexplored in the extant literature. Drawing upon aggregate survey data from select Western European EU member states and a focused case study of Slovakia, this paper seeks to assess the impact of information, in this case information about the European Union, on voting for ERRPs. The argument presented here is that EU information mitigates the support for ERRPs, more so in the East than in the West.
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Mangwanda, Nigel. "The impact of the right to be forgotten on privacy and online information disclosure." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52439.
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The question of how much control individuals have over their data online has taken centre stage with the introduction of the European Union s right to be forgotten (RTBF) principle. However, this principle does not explain the impact and possible consequences that this right has on an individual s willingness to disclose information online. This research examines how an individual s privacy calculus is affected if he or she discloses person ally identifiable information online to service providers.
Two hypotheses, the first which, related to the influence the right to be forgotten has on the privacy calculus and, secondly, dealing with the impact of such on information disclosure are assessed using quantitative approach based on an online survey (n=502). The results were analysed using nonparametric tests, which included Spearman s Correlation, Krusal Wallis and the Mann-Whitney U tests.
The findings show that the RTBF principle does influence an individual s thought process prior to he or she disclosing information online. Furthermore, the findings indicated individuals with a medium and high degree of information disclosure would disclose more personally identifiable information if they were convinced that information they provided was not discernible.
Some of the findings in this research could be of significance in the areas of information technology, international and criminal law, psychology, politics and human rights. Additionally, this study could be used to address individual privacy through amendments to privacy policies, laws and changes in software engineering practices.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Heite, Martin. "Privacy, Constitutions and the Law of Torts: a Comparative and Theoretical Analysis of Protecting Personal Information Against Dissemination in New Zealand, the UK and the USA." University of Canterbury. Law, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2955.
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The New Zealand Court of Appeal has recently acknowledged the existence of a freestanding tort of invasion of privacy in Hosking v Runting. The tort is in its infancy and the courts are still grappling with essential problems, the most prominent of which is the conflict with countervailing interests in freedom of speech. In need of guidance, the courts turn to overseas authorities, predominantly from the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The commonly found descriptive nature of the comparison invites a broader analysis of these jurisdictions. In this thesis, I offer a theoretically informed comparative law analysis of New Zealand's new tort with the American public disclosure of private facts tort and the British extended breach of confidence action. In all three jurisdictions, the conflict of privacy with individual and societal concerns in freedom of speech has led to an exten-sion of (quasi-) constitutional norms derived, for instance, from the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 into the common law sphere – the horizontal effect. The horizontal application of constitutional rights poses significant legal problems to the common law, because it has learned to deal with duties rather than rights. The time has come to re-consider the nature of rights in both constitutional and tort law. The comparison shows that New Zealand has effectively adopted two torts – one following the duty-based lead of the United States of America and an alternative modelled along the lines of the more rights-orientated British law. The law of the United Kingdom and the USA differ to a degree that calls their comparability into question. I present the preferable British ap-proach as a 'constitutionalised common law tort of privacy.' The results also show that this model represents a competitive third way to traditional solutions based on common law or statute by means of utilising a statutory human rights instrument as an analytical framework for the common law.
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Postan, Emily Rose. "Defining ourselves : narrative identity and access to personal biological information." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25733.
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When biological information about an individual is produced in healthcare or research settings, ethical questions may arise about whether the individual herself should be able to access it. This thesis argues that the individual’s identity-related interests warrant serious attention in framing and addressing these questions. Identity interests are largely neglected in bioethical, policy and legal debates about information access – except where information about genetic parentage is concerned. Even there, the relationship between information and identity, and the interests involved, remain unclear. This thesis seeks to fill this conceptual gap and challenge this exceptionalism. It does so by developing a normative account of the roles that a wide range of information about our health, bodies and biological relationships – ‘personal bioinformation’ – can play in the construction of our self-conceptions. This account is developed in two steps. First, building on existing philosophical theories of narrative self-constitution, this thesis proposes that personal bioinformation has a critical role to play in the construction of identity narratives that remain coherent and support us in navigating our embodied experiences. Secondly, drawing on empirical literature reporting individuals’ attitudes to receiving three categories of personal bioinformation (about donor conception, genetic disease susceptibility, and neuroimaging-based psychiatric diagnoses), the thesis seeks to illustrate, demonstrate the plausibility of, and to refine this theoretically-based proposition. From these foundations, it is argued that we can have strong identity-related interests in whether and how we are able to access bioinformation about ourselves. The practical implications of this conclusion are then explored. It is argued that identity interests are not reducible to other interests (for example, in health protection) commonly weighed in information disclosure decisions. They, therefore, warrant attention in their own right. An ethical framework is developed to guide delivery of this. This framework sets out the ethical responsibilities of those who hold bioinformation about us to respond to our identity interests in information disclosure practices and policies. The framework is informed by indications from the illustrative examples that our interests engaged as much by how bioinformation is communicated as whether it is disclosed. Moreover, these interests are not uniformly engaged by all bioinformation in all circumstances and there is potential for identity detriment as well as benefit. The ethical framework highlights the opportunities for and challenges of responding to identity interests and the scope and limits of potential disclosers’ responsibilities to do so. It also makes recommendations as to the principles and characteristics of identity-supporting disclosure practices.
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Toma, Vlada. "I Decide What I Do. Right? : Persuasive design factors and purchase intention." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Informatik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49397.
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Online shopping has gained more and more popularity over the years, naturally, leading to an increase in the number of e-commerce websites. From a variety of websites users can choose the one that best suits their needs depending on different factors, such as information or easy navigation. E-commerce websites have the aim to sell, thus besides providing information and easy navigation other strategies such as persuasion are implemented on the website to increase its selling performance. Some of the well-known persuasive design factors and how they influence user’s purchase behaviour will be discussed in this study. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the effects of persuasive design factors on purchase intention, as well as to assess the effect of the need for cognition as a user condition on the relationship. Based on the literature review, a theoretical framework is proposed to accomplish the aim of the thesis. For the empirical evidence, a quantitative approach was taken, with the help of two online questionnaires (one with persuasive factors and one without persuasive factors). A non-probability convenience sampling approach was used for gathering data. The results of the study provide evidence that using persuasive design factors on an e-commerce website can increase the likelihood of purchase intention. The findings do not conclude the mediating role of attitude towards using the website, yet a relationship between attitude and purchase intention was found. The moderating effect of need for cognition was not established.
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Moerat, Sedick. "The disclosure of information on medical certificates and the impact on the right to privacy." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7647.
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Magister Legum - LLMChapter 2 of the Constitution contains the Bill of Rights, which ‘enshrines the rights of all people in our country and affirms the democratic values of human dignity, equality and freedom.’1 By rights being afforded to the employee in the workplace, such rights need to be protected (legislation being implemented by legislature is subjugated by the Bill of Rights).2 Labour legislation being implemented in order to protect the rights afforded to the employees,therefore creating fair labour practice in terms of section 23 of the Constitution. Such legislation needs to take in regards various rights of an employee, such as the right to privacy3 of an employee. This resulted in creating domestic legislation in order to protect employees’ rights to privacy. A detail discusses of how various domestic legislation were implemented to protect the right is discussed in Chapter 2. In addition to the implementation of domestic legislation giving effect to the right to fair labour practices, the Constitution requires that international law be considered when individual and a further international obligations with regards to international standards). Section 39(1)(b) provides that ‘when interpreting the Bill of Rights, a court, tribunal or forum must consider international law’. This means that standards set by the International Labour Organisation and Conventions must be considered when interpreting the right to fair labour practice.4 A detailed discussion is dealt with in Chapter 2. The primary research question of this thesis is ‘is an employee’s right to privacy infringed by requiring a medical condition to be disclosed on a sick note for purposes of statutory sick leave?’ In answering this question, a number of ancillary questions must be answered, including whether doctor and patient confidentiality is breached in disclosing such information on a sick note; to what extent medical information can be disclosed in the medical information; whether there is a potential for misuse of information disclosed on the medical certificate against the employee; whether such disclosure of information could lead to unfair labour practice where the employee can be unfairly discriminated against based on such disclosure and how is privacy is being protected and processed in terms of legislation domestically and foreign legislation.
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Brase, Susanne. "Public figures' right to privacy, private law constraints on the media's rights to access and to publish information : a Canadian-German comparative study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0003/MQ36006.pdf.
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Bigot-Destreguil, Marine. "Le bien-information." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01D010.
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Dans un contexte de mondialisation et, dans une société de l'information et de l'innovation stratégique, l'information est devenue un élément de fonctionnement et un facteur de développement économique indispensable aux entreprises. Face à de nouveaux enjeux politiques, économiques et même sociologiques, la nécessité d'identifier l'information est devenue de plus en plus ardente. Néanmoins, l'incertitude demeure quant à la notion même d'information et, malgré les nombreuses tentatives du législateur, il semble difficile de la cerner avec exactitude. C'est pourquoi, l'élaboration d'une définition de l'information semblait nécessaire. Il a été jugé préférable de recourir à une définition négative et positive de l'information. L'analyse juridique de l'information implique ensuite de procéder à une opération de qualification, laquelle peut paraître délicate, tant la réalité juridique de l'information est diverse. Dans le cas présent, c'est la valeur investissement, qui permet d'attraire l'information dans la catégorie des biens. A cet égard, la nouveauté suscitée par la valeur immatérielle de l 'information ne paraît pas adaptée à la conception classique du droit de propriété. L'information s'inscrit en effet, comme un fournisseur potentiel de revenus, et la propriété telle que retenue dans la démonstration. est celle qui doit garantir à son propriétaire d'exploiter toutes les utilités du bien. C'est donc une propriété plus souple qui ne se laisse pas enfermer dans le simple triptyque de l 'usus, abusus et fructus, mais qui, au contraire, développe un champ des possibilités infinies, pourvu que le propriétaire ait une maitrise absolue sur son bien-informationIn an environment of globalization, and in a strategic innovation and information society, information has become an element of functioning and an essential factor of economic development for companies. Faced with new political, economic and even sociological issues, the need to identify information has become more and more ardent. Nevertheless, uncertainty remains as to the notion of information and, despite the many attempts of the legislator, it seems difficult to define if precisely. Therefore, the development of a definition of information seemed necessary. It was considered preferable to use a negative and positive definition of information. The legal analysis of information then involves carrying out a qualification operation, which may seem delicate, as the legal reality of information is diverse. In the case at end, it is the investment-value, which makes it possible to attract the information in the category of assets. In this respect, the novelty aroused by the immaterial value of the information does not seem to be adapted to the classical conception of the right of property. The information is actually a potential supplier of income, and the property as retained in the demonstration, is the one that must guarantee to ifs owner to exploit al! the utilities of the asset. It is therefore a more flexible property which does not allow itself to be enclosed in the simple triptych of the usus, abusus and fructus, but which, on the contrary, develops infinite possibilities, provided that the owner has absolute control over his asset-information
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Elliott, Anne A. "Rights in Conflict: Freedom of Information versus the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1341505659.
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Chen, Yongxi, and 陳詠熙. "An empty promise of freedom of information? : assessing the legislative and judicial protection of the right of access of government information in China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197074.
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This thesis assesses and explains the effectiveness of the legal regime for government transparency in China, with a focus on the legislative and judicial protection of citizens’ right of access to information (ATI), through a combination of normative doctrinal analysis and empirical investigation. In 2007, China promulgated the Regulation on Open Government Information (ROGI),which implicitly created a general and legally enforceable ATI right, thereby establishing a regime akin to the freedom of information (FOI) regimes that prevail in many countries worldwide. However, this nascent regime appears to have had mixed, and rather confusing, effects. Existent assessments of the regime’s effectiveness have concentrated either on the ROGI text or on data concerning bureaucratic performance and the extra-legal factors affecting that performance, but have failed to consider sufficiently the perplexities and peculiarities of the Chinese legal system that bear heavily on the ROGI’s operation. This thesis constitutes an attempt to make both substantive and methodological contributions to research in this field.
The thesis is organized into three main areas. First, it analyses the relation between the ruling Communist Party’s policies and the making of local and national transparency legislation. It finds that the legislative endorsement of an ATI right resulted from several of the Party’s reform goals, which include not only the facilitation of economic prosperity and social progress but also the fostering of government accountability and public participation. These goals, although with respective limitations, overlap with the values underlying FOI law. Second, it examines the labyrinth of Chinese laws, regulations and other legal norms that regulate the disclosure of government information, particularly the ROGI and Law on Guarding State Secrets, and evaluates them against international best practice standards on FOI law. It finds that the overall legislative framework lags behind international standards, largely because it fails to stipulate a presumption of disclosure and contains multi-layered restrictions on access, thereby leaving administrative organs with an enormous degree of discretion. Third, it reviews 169 judicial decisions collected through methods specially designed to ensure their representativeness. It distils the major trends in the interpretations made and rules set by the courts and finds that, by placing restrictions on access to court, imposing a need test, failing to scrutinize state secret claims, deferring to administrative discretion in applying exemptions and avoiding injunctive relief, the courts have further reduced the normative scope of the ATI right. It argues that this inadequate judicial protection is caused not by limitations on judicial power with respect to that right, but primarily by the abandonment of duty on the part of most courts, which have either misapplied the law or deviated from the guiding cases and legal doctrine that maintain the coherence of laws and judicial autonomy. Owing to the combined effect of a weak legislative framework and largely impotent judicial protection, the ATI right has been virtually deprived of its function to enable the citizenry to monitor and check the government. It has also failed to fulfil its potential in protecting citizens’ personal and property rights. In this regard, China’s ATI right falls far short of a genuine right to freedom of information.
These findings provide a necessary basis for a more accurate assessment of China’s open government information regime and a more perceptive comparison of this peculiarly Chinese regime with the FOI regimes of other countries. They also shed new light on the operation of judicial review in China. Furthermore, they indicate the barriers that must be overcome in future reforms to achieve a genuine FOI environment and highlight the interconnectedness of any such reform measures.published_or_final_version
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Leonard, Carol. "The use of contextual information by right brain-damaged individuals in the resolution of ambiguous pronouns." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41662.
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Three experiments were conducted with the primary purpose of investigating the ability of right brain-damaged (RBD) individuals to use contextual information--at the level of the single sentence, in terms of the integration of information between clauses, and at the level of a minimal discourse (i.e. two sentences)--in the resolution of ambiguous pronouns. The investigation was extended to a group of left brain-damaged (LBD) and non brain-damaged (NBD) individuals. Four additional studies investigated and found no age effects in the use of contextual information in pronoun resolution. The results of the experiments with brain-damaged subjects were contrary to initial expectations. All three experiments were consistent in demonstrating that the RBD group was influenced by contextual information in a manner similar to that demonstrated by both the LBD and NBD groups. The results are discussed in terms of the distinction between automatic and effortful processing.
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Nouck, Alphonse Landry. "The right of access to information for visually disabled and hearing impaired persons in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5521.
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Divate, Milind. "Methodology for quantifying wetland landscape parameters for highway right of way decisions utilizing GIS." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5774.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 2, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.
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Leite, Renata Antunes de Figueiredo. "Direito à informação em saúde: análise do conhecimento do paciente acerca de seus direitos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/22/22131/tde-16112010-110825/.
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O direito à informação em saúde é um direito que se legitima a partir da informação mediada pelo profissional de saúde, permitindo com que o paciente se empodere desta informação, com a possibilidade de gerar conhecimento e, conseqüentemente, facilitar o exercício de sua cidadania. Esta pesquisa qualitativa de caráter exploratório, com orientação analítico-descritiva, apresentou como objetivo identificar o conhecimento de usuários do setor de Clínica Médica de uma Unidade Básica de Saúde (UBDS) de Ribeirão Preto sobre o seu direito à informação especificado no art. 2º, incisos VI, VII, VIII, e XI da Lei Estadual 10.241/1999: direito a informações claras e objetivas sobre diagnósticos, exames e quaisquer procedimentos realizados pela equipe de saúde, direito de consentir ou recusar procedimentos, direito ao acesso ao seu prontuário médico em caso de necessidade e, por fim, direito a receber receitas médicas legíveis, com assinatura e registro do médico. Utilizou-se para a coleta de dados de entrevista semi-estruturada e a análise dos dados foi realizada a partir da análise de conteúdo. As entrevistas foram realizadas logo após a consulta médica, com 22 usuários de uma UBDS, na tentativa de coletar os dados durante o ato reflexivo do paciente sobre o momento vivido recentemente. Os resultados demonstram que, apesar do estudo ter apontado lacunas na comunicação entre os profissionais de saúde e os usuários do serviço, as necessidades informacionais dos usuários quanto à diagnóstico, exames, medicamentos, riscos e benefícios do tratamento estão sendo supridas parcialmente, o que denota o início do estabelecimento de relações democráticas entre profissional de saúde e paciente. Em relação ao consentimento esclarecido do usuário, pequeno número dos entrevistados foram consultados se consentiam com os procedimentos e tratamentos propostos, contudo, nenhum usuário teve acesso físico ao documento. Sobre o acesso ao prontuário, este direito não se concretizou nesta pesquisa, já que todos os respondentes nunca vivenciaram este acesso, e a maioria dos entrevistados desconheciam este direito. No que diz respeito ao acesso legível às receitas médicas, poucos disseram entender as prescrições, criticando as letras dos médicos. Algumas dificuldades foram relatadas em relação ao acesso a informações, quais sejam: o desequilíbrio nas relações de poder, a falta de acesso a informações verdadeiras e de qualidade sobre sua saúde, as dificuldades na relação interpessoal com o paciente em virtude da rapidez nos atendimentos, problemas para a concretização do cuidado humanizado à saúde, a dificuldade de exercer o direito de escolha do paciente quanto ao profissional que irá atendê-lo e o excesso de burocracia no sistema. Facilidades em relação ao acesso foram evidenciadas já que houve um grande índice de satisfação dentre pacientes que são usuários efetivos do SUS. Outra facilidade foi confirmada já que a grande maioria dos entrevistados reconhece os medicamentos genéricos e apontam que os recebem na própria UBDS. Conclui-se assim que, apesar das lacunas e desafios existentes, o estudo apontou indícios e possibilidades de mudança para a construção conjunta de relações mais democráticas, em que o usuário, como sujeito, exerce direitos, mas também tem consciência de suas obrigações como cidadão, especialmente no que diz respeito à sua relação com o profissional e o serviço de saúde.The right to health information is legitimized based on information mediated by health professionals, who empower patients with this information, which in turn permits the generation of knowledge and, consequently, facilitates the exercise of citizenship. This qualitative and exploratory study with an analyticaldescriptive approach investigates the knowledge of users from the medical clinic of a Basic Health Unit (BHU) in Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil concerning their right to information provided in Article 2, Items VI, VII, VIII, and XI of State Law 10.241/1999: the right to clear and objective information about diagnoses, exams and any procedures performed by the health team; the right to consent or refuse procedures; the right to access medical records in case of need; and finally, the right to receive legible medical prescriptions with the physician\'s signature and registration. A semi-structured interview was used to collect data, analyzed via content analysis. Interviews were carried out right after medical consultations with 22 users of a BHU in an attempt to collect data through the reflections of patients concerning their recent experience. Even though the study evidenced that there are gaps in the communication between health professionals and users, results revealed that the users\' information needs concerning diagnosis, exams, medication, risks and benefits of treatment are partially met, which shows that democratic relationships between health professionals and patients are being established. In regard to the users\' informed consent, a small number of users were asked to consent to the proposed procedures and treatments, though, no user had physical access to any form. Access to medical records was not evidenced in this study since none of the respondents ever had such access and most of them were unaware of this right. Concerning legible medical prescription, few reported understanding their prescriptions; physicians\' handwriting was criticized. Some difficulties were reported in relation to access to information as follows: unbalanced power relations, lack of access to truthful and quality information concerning users\' health, difficulties in patients\' interpersonal relationships due to the rapidity with which consultations are performed, difficulties in the concretization of humanized health care, difficulty in exercising their right of choice in relation to the professional who will provide care and the system\'s excessive bureaucracy. Facilities in relation to access were evidenced since a high level of satisfaction was apparent among patients, the effective users of SUS. Another facility was confirmed since most of the respondents acknowledged generic medications and report receiving them in the BHU itself. The conclusion is that despite existent gaps and challenges, the findings indicate that there are possibilities to jointly construct more democratic relationships in which users, as subjects, exert their rights but are also aware of their obligations as citizens, especially in regard to their relationship with professionals and the health service.
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Banerjea-Brodeur, Nicolas Paul. "Advance passenger information passenger name record : privacy rights and security awareness." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=80909.
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An in-depth study of Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record has never been accomplished prior to the events of September 11 th. It is of great importance to distinguish both of these concepts as they entail different legal consequence. API is to be understood as a data transmission that Border Control Authorities possess in advance in order to facilitate the movements of passengers. It is furthermore imperative that harmonization and inter-operability between States be achieved in order for this system to work. Although the obligations seem to appear for air carriers to be extraneous, the positive impact is greater than the downfalls.Passenger Name Record access permits authorities to have additional data that could identify individuals requiring more questioning prior to border control clearance. This data does not cause in itself privacy issues other than perhaps the potential retention and manipulation of information that Border Control Authorities may acquire. In essence, bilateral agreements between governments should be sought in order to protect national legislation.
The common goal of the airline industry is to ensure safe and efficient air transport. API and PNR should be viewed as formalities that can facilitate border control clearance and prevent the entrance of potentially high-risk individuals.
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Lincoln, Laura Beth. "Symmetric private information retrieval via additive homomorphic probabilistic encryption /." Online version of thesis, 2006. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/2792.
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Matiation, Nicole. "A plea for time : northern aboriginal peoples advocate for the right to communicate on the information highway." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39051.pdf.
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Salau, Aaron Olaniyi. "Right of access to information and its limitation by national security in Nigeria: mutually inclusive or exclusive?" Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25429.
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Section 39(1) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria guarantees freedom of expression, including the right to receive and impart information. Also, the domestication of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights' makes the Charter's protections for access to information part of Nigerian law. Indeed, sections 39(3) and 45(1) of the Constitution permit restrictions on access to information, but only by 'law that is reasonably justifiable in a democratic society'. Unfortunately, access to information in Nigeria is heavily circumscribed by statutes that confer absolute powers on the executive to classify information to protect vague 'national security' interests inconsistently with what is reasonably justifiable in a democratic society. Underlying this problem are a colonial legacy of administrative secrecy that disdains disclosure of official information and clumsy constitutional rights provisions that accentuate security restrictions rather than the right to information. Using democratic theory as an analytical tool, this thesis advocates for the right of access to information as not just a constitutional value, but also a minimum requirement for the functioning of a democratic society. In so doing, it aims to curtail abuse of executive powers under national security laws that permit limitations on access to information. The thesis uses African human rights standards of reasonableness to evaluate how national security laws that limit access to information measure against constitutional standards of reasonableness and justifiability in a democratic society. The thesis finds that constitutional protection and jurisprudential recognition of the right of access to information in Nigeria do not comply with minimum international law requirements. The thesis ultimately suggests that limitation of access to information on grounds of national security must be in the public interest. In striking a balance between access to information and national security, it recommends a sufficient legislative description of 'national security' and clear constitutional framework for access to information, subject to restrictions only where harm to national security is demonstrably greater than access to information.
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Acevedo, Rafael A. "Valued information at the right time (VIRT) and the Navy's cooperative engagement capability (CEC) - a win/win proposition." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FAcevedo.pdf.
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Leite, Renata Antunes de Figueiredo. "Direito à informação em saúde: revisão integrativa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/22/22131/tde-27072015-180513/.
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Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura com os objetivos de identificar, avaliar criticamente e sintetizar as evidências científicas relacionadas ao direito à informação em saúde. A questão norteadora para a pesquisa foi: Quais as evidências disponíveis sobre o direito à informação em saúde? As bases de dados Hein Online, ISTA, Lilacs, LISA, PubMed e Web of Science foram selecionadas para a busca de estudos primários indexados nos últimos 10 anos. Os descritores controlados e não controlados foram selecionados de acordo com cada base de dados. Dos 6888 estudos localizados e considerando os critérios de seleção foram excluídos 2433 por não serem artigos de periódico, 907 por não serem estudos primários, 3346 devido à ausência de relação ao tema. Do total de 202 elegíveis, 183 não respondiam à questão norteadora e 15 estudos primários foram incluídos na revisão integrativa. Para a extração dos dados foi utilizado um instrumento validado. A análise dos dados foi descritiva e apresentada em três categorias: conhecimento de pacientes sobre seu direito à informação, conhecimento de pacientes e profissionais de saúde sobre direito à informação do paciente e conhecimento de profissionais de saúde sobre o direito à informação do paciente. O desenvolvimento desta revisão integrativa da literatura permitiu, por meio dos resultados obtidos, encontrar as principais evidências relacionadas ao direito à informação em saúde. Em todas as categorias verifica-se a necessidade de capacitação de profissionais de saúde em relação ao direito dos usuários de serviços de saúde. Assim, a educação dos profissionais mostra-se como uma possibilidade de se fazer cumprir o direito à informação do paciente, melhorando a prática assistencial e consequentemente as condições de saúde das pessoasThe aim of this integrative literature review was to identify, critically evaluate and summarize evidence from primary studies related to the right to health information. The guiding question for the research was : What evidence is available on the right to health information ? The Hein Online databases, ISTA, Lilacs, LISA, PubMed and Web of Science were selected for the search for primary studies indexed in the last 10 years. The controlled and uncontrolled descriptors were selected according to each database. From over 6888 studies and considering the selection criteria, 2433 were excluded for not being journal articles, 907 for not being primary studies, 3346 due to the lack of relationship with the theme. Of the 202 eligible ones, 183 did not respond to the guiding question and 15 primary studies were included in the integrative review. To entry the data, a validated instrument was used. Data analysis was descriptive and presented in three categories: knowledge of patients about their right to information, knowledge of patients and health professionals on patient\'s right to information and knowledge of health professionals on the right to patient information. The development of this integrative literature showed, through the results, the main evidence related to the right to health information. In all categories, there is a need to train health professionals in relation to the right of health services users. Thus the education of professionals emerges as a possibility to enforce the right to patient information, improving care practice and consequently the health of the people
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Rowse, Julie L. "Trouble Right Here in Digital City: Censorship of Online Student Speech." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1206215877.
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Sou, Sok Fong. "An approach to protecting online personal information in Macau government." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3869194.
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Lemmens, Trudo. "Genetic information and insurance : a contextual analysis of legal and regulatory means of promoting just distributions." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84213.
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This thesis analyzes the rationale, appropriateness and value of the available legal and regulatory means to deal with genetic discrimination in the context of insurance. Insurance is used as a paradigm case for discussing the legal means to address the concerns related to the impact of new medical technologies. A new framework is proposed for evaluating the potential impact of such new technologies on people's ability to participate fully in social life and to have access to important social goods without unfair discrimination based on certain inherited traits.A "thick" contextual method is used, which involves a detailed description of the medical, social, and legal context of the debate. The approach is based on Michael Walzer's theory of justice, which posits that in assessing the fairness of the distribution of a particular good, one must take into account the nature of the good as determined by the specific socio-historical context in which it obtains its shared meaning. Walzer's theory is used in the thesis to critically analyze the regulatory and legislative means introduced in several countries to curb genetic discrimination. It is further argued that Walzer's contextual analysis resembles the approach taken by the Canadian Supreme Court in the context of anti-discrimination law. Canadian human rights law is analyzed in detail to describe how genetic discrimination could be dealt with under the current provisions and how human rights law can be used to create conditions of substantive equality. The thesis concludes with an analysis of various legal and regulatory options to deal with genetic discrimination and its impact on human rights in the Canadian context. The establishment of a regulatory body is proposed, with the mandate to review the appropriateness of the use of new tests in the context of insurance. I argue that this review process, and the contextual analysis that should be involved in this process, would constitute a useful step towards creating conditions for substantive equality, not only for those who are genetically disabled, but for all those who are affected by real or perceived disabling conditions and stigmatizing traits.