- Social dimensions of privacy
- Privacy-enhanced e-ticketing solutions using location-based services
- Empowering and Protecting Children and Adolescents against Cyberbullying
- PrimeLife
- Regulating biotechnology. Towards effective regulatory design

Social dimensions of privacy

Social dimensions of privacy

Contact: Anton Vedder
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Privacy-enhanced e-ticketing solutions using location-based services

Location-based services are increasingly available on modern smartphones (iPhones, Blackberries, etc.), and make use of the current location of the device. This feature can also be used for e-ticketing solutions. At the same time, however, location information potentially impacts the privacy of users. The research project will investigate how these services can be employed in e-ticketing solutions in an economically viable, socially acceptable, and legally compliant way, whilst respecting the privacy of the users. The research is focussed on applications within the area of public transport.

Contact: Ronald Leenes
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Empowering and Protecting Children and Adolescents against Cyberbullying

The 4-year multidisciplinary research project entitled, 'Empowering And Protecting Children And Adolescents Against Cyberbullying¿, will start as of 1 October 2009 as part of the Responsible Innovation programme funded by the NWO. The project will be headed by Dr. Simone van der Hof (TILT) in collaboration with Prof. Patti Valkenburg (CCAM, Center of Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media, UvA), Dr. Anton Vedder (TILT) and Dr. Virginia Dignum (Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht) assisted by a postdoc researcher and a research assistant. This research aims at mapping the problem of cyberbullying amongst children and adolescents and the different kinds of interventions that are deployed to address cyberbullying in virtual communities.

Contact: Simone van der Hof
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PrimeLife

Contact: Ronald Leenes
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Regulating biotechnology. Towards effective regulatory design

This is a proposal for a 'Pionier' project that is to focus on the regulation of biotechnologie. Its objective is to advance theoretical understanding and to gather emperical information necessary for the design of an effective and efficient regulatory regime. Effective regulation of biothechnologie requires integration of various prevailing and legitimate perspectives that dominate this new technology in its different applications. For the operationalization of integration, we draw inspiration from insights provided by modern literature advocating regulatory pluralism. Perspectives on biothechnologie, associated actors, institutions and legal instruments, are context-specific. For this reason, the project comprises three case studies wich represent such semi-autonomous contexts: biothechnologie in food and agriculture (1); human genetics (2), and patent law (3). These case studies are each informed by emperical material gathered in large part by a senior researcher in the context of a discrete project (4). The project leader assumes personal responsibility for an integrative project (5) that is to formulate general conclusions pertaining to the effective regulation of biothechnological innovation.

Contact: Han Somsen
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