Today's technologies provide companies with unprecedented access to customer information—and raise serious concerns about privacy. By taking a deliberate approach to building customer trust, a business can turn the privacy challenge into a significant competitive advantage.You can download a report of The Economic value of Trust by Accenture.
The Virtual Enterprise networks (VEN) can be described as an opportunistic temporary alliance of separate, independent pre-existing enterprises that come together in a tight, integrated ad hoc network to share skills/competencies/resources and whose cooperation is supported by computer networks.
In a VEN, trust is a crucial issue.
For further information you can read:
“Virtual Enterprise Networks in Europe - Economic Opportunities and Legal Challenges” by Juergen Noll, University of Vienna
And Yorkshire Forward’s Virtual Enterprise Networks
EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center presents privacy year in review, issues to Watch:The USA PATRIOT Act, California's privacy reforms, Data outsourcing, National ID, Internet privacy. EPIC's Special Alert reviews the top privacy stories of 2004 and shows you the trends to keep an eye on in 2005.
1. National ID
2. USA PATRIOT Act Renewal
3. Telemarketers Attack Privacy Rules
4. Google Tracks Reading?
5. VOIP
6. Smart Barcodes, RFID, and Products that Spy
7. Internet Privacy
8. Outsourcing
9. Centralized Voter Registration Databases
In this historical paper “The Right to Privacy” published in Harvard Law Review by Warren and Brandeis in 1890, we can find the privacy "roots".
In technology review there is an article about Ciphire Mail, a privately held company based Zurich financed by business angels who support the company's vision that privacy and identity protection are rights that should be protected in a civil society, hopes to change all that with a new approach to thwart the nasties.
Ciphire Mail is an email encryption tool. It works in conjunction with your existing email client. Ciphire Mail operates seamlessly in the background and does not interfere with normal emailing routines. It encrypts and decrypts email messages, and can digitally sign each message to provide authentication and guard against identity theft. Ciphire Mail is the first out-of-the box solution to match power with ease of use
You can donwload Ciphire Mail for free.
