Cybertrust: the tension between privacy and security in an e-society

Since April 2003, the Oxford Internet Institute, a department within the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford, develops Cybertrust: the tension between privacy and security in an e-society:

Perceptions of trust in online activities are significant factors influencing the kinds and extents of Internet use, for example in e-commerce and e-government interactions, and have been a key cross-cutting theme of several pieces of research over the past five years.

Outcomes

Guerra, G.A., Zizzo, D.J., Dutton, W. and Peltu, M. (2003) Economics of Trust in the Information Economy: Issues of Identity, Privacy and Security. Research Report No. 1 (Oxford Internet Institute).
Dutton, W., Guerra, G.A., Zizzo, D.J. and Peltu, M. (2005) The cyber trust tension in e-government: Balancing identity, privacy, security. Information Polity (Special issue: Public Administration in the Information Society: Essays in Risk and Trust) 10:13-23.