Improving trust in cloud computing: A framework that incorporates the factors that influence trust in cloud services

One of the key challenges of adopting cloud computing is related to trust. Trust is necessary for effective collaboration between customers and providers and reducing transaction costs, however, in practice this trust is often lacking. From the scientific literature, it becomes clear that there is still a lot of ambiguity about trust in cloud...

The adoption and diffusion of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: The factors that drive and impede the adoption and diffusion of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies of private communication and data storage

Privacy and security are perceived as of great importance. However, readily available Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and their development, innovation and standardization is not very forthcoming. Indeed, the dominant business model is privacy invasive: gathering and using private data as part of the business model to safeguard continuity....

Towards the Adoption of EU General Data Protection Regulation: An Empirical Study of Businesses’ Perception on Privacy and Data Protection

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) is about to come in force in May 2018. It poses new queries for both policymakers and businesses. Policymakers want o know how effective the new EU GDPR will be while the businesses would like to know how the EU GDPR should be implemented. To answer that question, empirical studies on how...

Behavioural response to automated vehicles

Although fully-automated vehicles (FAVs) are not yet allowed on public roads and are barely present in people’s daily lives, according to experts their wide implementation will happen within the next few decades. The technology is expected to bring major benefits in terms of safety, traffic flow efficiency and environmental impact. Furthermore,...

The Influence of Secondment on Labour Productivity in Germany

Personal privacy in Practice: Putting the GDPR to test in a collective exercise of data subjects’ right of access

Do they really value your privacy?: An exploratory analysis of what can be learned about companies from their privacy statements

This master thesis explores to what degree information about a company's commitment to privacy can be extracted from a privacy statement. To do this, firstly a new database of more than 1500 privacy statements is created using Amazon Mechanical Turk. Next, 72 different aspects related to privacy of the statements are enumerated by using natural...