多级矢运算

多级矢运算(Clifford代数或几何代数)比通常的数学工具诸如矢量、张量、旋量及外微分形式有很多优越性。介绍了多级矢运算的基础知识及其复数性质。以刚体转动为例,由二维几何空间到三维几何空间,用多级矢运算来描述,展示了多级矢运算的优越性,体现了物理几何体系包含“点”、“线”、“面”、“体”等空间的复数性质。     

论隐私伦理的变异

从传统社会到法治社会,隐私权随着隐私伦理的发展而得到了更为有效的保障.然而,随着信息时代的到来,崭新的信息传播方式使得伦理价值取舍因虚拟空间的存在而失去了有效的监督和约束.人们对待隐私的态度也因此发生了变化.隐私伦理的变异导致了隐私权保护的新问题.因此,通过对隐私伦理变异的原因进行分析,探讨隐私权保护的困难,对于在信息时代确立新的隐私伦理价值,并在制度和技术上完善隐私权的保护机制具有重要意义.     

Mobile banking: Exploring determinants of its adoption

As accessibility of technology, availability of information, and ability to interact through the Internet increase and evolve, more people are gravitating toward increasing their use of the Internet. Although the number of Internet banking users has grown rapidly in recent years, not all customers are ready to accept mobile banking services. It remains a challenge for banks to explore how to attract more customers to adopt the use of banking services via a mobile channel. This study examines the factors that impact acceptance of the use of mobile banking. A total of 309 subjects participated in this study. Data were collected via a survey instrument. A multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings suggest factors that banks should consider when implementing mobile banking services, thus allowing them to design services that meet the needs of their customers.     

隐私权，亟待法律完善的领域

每一个自然人都有隐私,隐私权的自然需求得到法律的保护体现了社会的进步,该文从隐私权的产生,相应的权利冲突及我国对隐私权保护的立法现状,伴随着信息传播方式的多元化特别是网络时代的到来,阐述我国在制定民法典中明确列举隐私权的必要性。     

Locating a Space for Ethics to Appear in Decision-making: Privacy as an Exemplar

Using concepts from Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society, this paper argues that as expertise proliferates questions of ethics in decision-making fall through gaps between domains of expertise. As a consequence, unethical outcomes are unattached to actions taken with no one accountable or responsible for these outcomes. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), a case study is presented showing how the sale of students’ personal information by the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) escaped questions of ethics. The sale of student information was the product of the convergence of narrowly focussed technology and education expert actions and decisions with an earlier two-stage translation of privacy from a potential ethical issue to an issue of expert rule creation and interpretation. The purpose of this paper is to show, through an example, how questions of ethics are displaced in expert decision-making and to enable the public, managers, individuals and experts to recognize displacements and, through this, create a space for ethics to appear. Bill has conducted extensive research in the area of information technology and privacy, with a particular emphasis on how privacy issues play out in practice. The variety and complexity of interacting influences that shape privacy in practice has lead Bill to expand the scope of his research to include history, ethics and public plicy.     

浅议网络隐私权的法律保护

计算机网络技术的发展,对网络空间的个人隐私权产生了巨大冲击,那么如何加强对网络隐私权的法律保护已经成为当务之急。本文在介绍我国网络隐私权的立法现状及存在的问题的基础上,结合我国的现实提出了完善网络隐私权保护的对策和立法建议。     

Electronic Monitoring to Promote National Security Impacts Workplace Privacy

This paper explores electronic workplace monitoring in light of the USA PATRIOT Act—federal legislation with a national security focus that expands the likelihood of electronic workplace monitoring to assist government investigators. The paper examines federal laws that cover the privacy rights of at-will employees in the context of electronic workplace monitoring, including recent cases that have narrowed employee privacy rights. The paper argues that business justifications for electronic workplace monitoring have been bolstered by national security concerns, resulting in decreased expectations of privacy in the workplace for at-will employees. There are persuasive arguments that employers should exercise restraint in the use of information obtained through electronic monitoring in discipline and discharge decisions related to at-will employees. These arguments in favor of exercising restraint flow from the text of the USA PATRIOT Act and consider the risk of discrimination lawsuits.     

Institutional trust and repurchase intention in the sharing economy: The moderating roles of information privacy concerns and security concerns

The sharing economy has accumulated a great number of experienced users, which makes repurchase behaviors a major concern. This research concentrates on two types of institutional trust, namely, trust in the platform and trust in the community of providers, and their various effects in shaping repurchase intention under different conditions specified by the innate human perception of risks. Drawing upon the privacy calculus model, we identify two types of risk-related perceptions, i.e., information privacy concerns and security concerns, as the primary situational factors for trust to take effect. We then propose a model to illustrate how these two types of trust operate under the boundary conditions specified by information privacy concerns and security concerns. Our findings based on experienced users of sharing accommodation platforms in China suggest that both types of institutional trust can promote repurchase intention, and their effects are moderated by both information privacy concerns and security concerns to varying extents. In doing so, our study contributes to the existing studies by confirming the essential role of institutional trust in driving repurchase behaviors and by adding a new understanding of institutional trust in platform-based businesses such as the sharing economy.     

Ontological Security, Existential Anxiety and Workplace Privacy

The relationship of workers to management has traditionally been one of control. However, the introduction of increasingly sophisticated technology as a means of supervision in the modern workplace has dramatically altered the contours of this relationship, giving workers much less privacy and making workers much more visible than previously possible. The purpose of this paper is to examine the current state of technological control of workers and how it has altered the relationship of worker to organization, through the impact upon self as perceived by the worker.