Abstract: "This thesis concerns the privacy implications of digital communication with vehicles. At present, an ever-increasing number of automobiles are being outfitted with digital sensing systems that record or transmit data about the vehicle in real-time. These are known as telematic systems. The result is that a large amount of information about the use of a vehicle is being stored in the vehicle itself, is transmitted over airwaves and is used and stored at the point of reception. Much of this information is stored and processed without the knowledge or consent of the vehicle's owner, let alone the driver or the occupants. This situation naturally raises privacy issues. For what purpose is the data being taken? Are there unintended harmful uses of the data? Do public safety and other benefits outweigh the privacy risks? ... [sic] We attempt to answer these questions in this thesis study. Initially, we introduce the meaning of telematics, how it works, its current state and future growth. We then look at the differences between telematics and other location-based technologies which forms one of the major distinguishing factors between this thesis and previous research. Next, we explore the kinds of data that can be collected from automobiles. This data can have many uses that could result in the invasion of privacy. After investigating these privacy implications we create guidelines that can be used by government agencies and self-regulating bodies to create privacy policies for telematics. Finally, we discuss the future of telematics data privacy."

Telematics is offering a totally new scope for handling knowledge in the speed of its acquisition, learning, transference and communication. Healthcare professionals maybe misled and the patient maybe treated incorrectly. Secure and reliable information is a must in healthcare if the professionals cannot rely on the correctness of these modern streams of information. The protection of the patient's privacy is another security objective. Intensive national data protection regulations are today guiding professional work, but long before data protection came into the focus of public concern, ethical and professional demands already controlled the disclosure of patient data. This is the history of medical data protection. The issues presented in this book are critical because telematics technology is now being used througout the health care system for dealing with very sensitve data. More and more computers and systems are interconnected, they are increasingly interoperable. Yet the primary demands are that they are correct, not corrupted, relevant, complete, and accesible only to authorised persons. This raises technological and legal, regulatory, and ethical issues that are dealt with in a national context, but also at the Community level in the form of proposals for EU directives on data protection and concerning the protection of personal data and privacy in the context of digital telecommunications networks. "The issues presented in this book are critical because telematics technology is now being used throughout healthcare systems for dealing with very sensitive data." Health Informatics Europe, volume 4, no. 1, January 1996, p. 15

This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and regulates the distribution of insurance products in the EU. The book examines the main changes accompanying the IDD and analyses its impact on insurance distributors, i.e., insurance intermediaries and insurance undertakings, as well as the market. Drawing on interrelations between the rules of the Directive and other fields that are relevant to the distribution of insurance products, it explores various topics related to the interpretation of the IDD - e.g. the harmonization achieved under it; its role as a benchmark for national legislators; and its interplay with other regulations and sciences - while also providing an empirical analysis of the standardised pre-contractual information document. Accordingly, the book offers a wealth of valuable insights for academics, regulators, practitioners and students who are interested in issues concerning insurance distribution.--

Title page -- Preface: Prof. Dr. Herbert Burkert -- Preface: Prof. Dr. Heyo Eckel -- Table of Contents -- Executive Summary -- Zusammenfassung -- Resume -- Resumen -- Sammanfattning -- The Editors, Key Authors, and Experts -- 1. Digital Signatures and Encryption as Key Elements of Security in Health Telematics -- 2. Methodologies Used in the Legal Studies -- 3. Liability Reference Model -- 4. Strategic Reference Model -- 5. Specific Issues in Health Care -- 6. Outlook -- 7. Materials -- Index of Subjects and Names

Title page -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2 . The Legal Challenges -- 3. Trends in Health Telematics -- 4. The CoCo Guide to EDI Security -- 5. Security Architecture of the Star Project -- 6. The TrustHealth Pilot Experiment in Danderyd Hospital -- 7. Security Infrastructure for a Regional Electronic Medical Record -- 8. Security and the RHINE Project -- 9. The TIDDM Project and Security -- 10. Security Aspects in Relation to the HISA Standard Middleware Architecture -- 11. Using S/MIME for Health Insurance Claims -- 12. Summary of Described Security Problems and Solutions -- 13. Recommendations from SIREN -- 14. Authors -- 15. Bibliography -- 16. Websites -- Author Index

Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries. Online practices of business and government agencies may present new ways to compromise privacy, and e-commerce and technologies that make a wide range of personal information available to anyone with a Web browser only begin to hint at the possibilities for inappropriate or unwarranted intrusion into our personal lives. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of privacy in the information age. It explores such important concepts as how the threats to privacy evolving, how can privacy be protected and how society can balance the interests of individuals, businesses and government in ways that promote privacy reasonably and effectively? This book seeks to raise awareness of the web of connectedness among the actions one takes and the privacy policies that are enacted, and provides a variety of tools and concepts with which debates over privacy can be more fruitfully engaged. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age focuses on three major components affecting notions, perceptions, and expectations of privacy: technological change, societal shifts, and circumstantial discontinuities. This book will be of special interest to anyone interested in understanding why privacy issues are often so intractable.