The Clickwrap as Platform Governance: Assessing the Frequency of Manipulative Interface Designs During Digital Service Sign-Up

Reflecting on the covid-19 infodemic, this paper identifies different dimensions of information disorder associated with the pandemic, examines how online platform governance has been evolving in response, and reflects on what the crisis reveals about the relationship between online platforms, international law, and the prospect of regulation. The paper argues that online platforms are intermediary fiduciaries of the international public good, and for this reason regulation should be informed by relevant standards that apply to fiduciary relationships.

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Secure Digital Service as a Utility and the Unit of Measure

2020 11th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) ◽

10.1109/uemcon51285.2020.9298151 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Salam Ismaeel ◽

Mirza Kamaludeen ◽

Ali Miri

Keyword(s):

Digital Service

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An Autonomous Cybersecurity Framework for Next-generation Digital Service Chains

Journal of Network and Systems Management ◽

10.1007/s10922-021-09607-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Matteo Repetto ◽

Domenico Striccoli ◽

Giuseppe Piro ◽

Alessandro Carrega ◽

Gennaro Boggia ◽

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Keyword(s):

Business Models ◽

Identity Management ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Value Chains ◽

Sensitive Data ◽

Digital Service ◽

Security Issues ◽

Security Services ◽

New Business ◽

Access Control Management

AbstractToday, the digital economy is pushing new business models, based on the creation of value chains for data processing, through the interconnection of processes, products, services, software, and things across different domains and organizations. Despite the growing availability of communication infrastructures, computing paradigms, and software architectures that already effectively support the implementation of distributed multi-domain value chains, a comprehensive architecture is still missing that effectively fulfills all related security issues: mutual trustworthiness of entities in partially unknown topologies, identification and mitigation of advanced multi-vector threats, identity management and access control, management and propagation of sensitive data. In order to fill this gap, this work proposes a new methodological approach to design and implement heterogeneous security services for distributed systems that combine together digital resources and components from multiple domains. The framework is designed to support both existing and new security services, and focuses on three novel aspects: (i) full automation of the processes that manage the whole system, i.e., threat detection, collection of information and reaction to attacks and system anomalies; (ii) dynamic adaptation of operations and security tasks to newest attack patterns, and (iii) real-time adjustment of the level of detail of inspection and monitoring processes. The overall architecture as well as the functions and relationships of its logical components are described in detail, presenting also a concrete use case as an example of application of the proposed framework.

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Computer-assisted evaluation of interface designs

ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems ◽

10.1145/506812.506822 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 66-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mohamed Khalifa

Keyword(s):

Computer Assisted ◽

Interface Designs

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Behavioural Economic Influences on Primary Market Disclosure – The Case of the EU Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers

European Company and Financial Law Review ◽

10.1515/ecfr-2021-0020 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 428-463

Author(s):

Konstantinos Serdaris

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Preliminary Evaluation ◽

Full Disclosure ◽

Content Quality ◽

Platform Governance ◽

Capital Markets Union ◽

Alternative Means ◽

High Level ◽

Start Ups ◽

The Eu

Abstract On 5 October 2020, as part of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) project, the European Parliament adopted, in second reading, Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 on European crowdfunding service providers for business (‘ECSP Regulation’). This Regulation, which shall apply as of 10 November 2021, consists of rules which aim at improving access to crowdfunding for EU businesses in need of capital, particularly start-ups, while, at the same time, providing a high level of protection to investors. To attain that it builds on three sets of measures: clear rules on information disclosures for project owners and crowdfunding platforms; rules on platform governance and risk management; and a coherent approach to supervision and enforcement. The focus of this article is on the disclosure-related set of provisions. Its aim is to demonstrate how the new rules embrace a more behavioural approach to primary market disclosure which, in contrast to the paradigm of full disclosure, focuses on the content, quality and framing of disclosure as an alternative means of enabling informed and, thus, allocatively efficient investment decisions. In a second step, it seeks to provide a preliminary evaluation of these measures both from a practical and a normative perspective.

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