We survey some critical issues arising in pervasive applications, in particular the interplay between context-awareness and security. We shall outline the techniques adapted for guaranteeing applications to securely behave in the digital environment they are part of.

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This article presents an analysis based on data from an open dataset made available by an independent empirical research on the topic of  “Copyright in the digital age”. The original data includes information about attitudes, social perceptions and levels of…

Prof. Paliwala has published widely and had impact on an international level through his writings. We highlight some of these here.

What does it mean surveillance today? I say today, because this problem belongs to the political social and legal agenda since many decades. We have an enormous bibliography on this issue, with titles like technologies of control against technologies of…

At the 2012 BILETA conference it became known that Professor Abdul Paliwala was retiring from his post at Warwick University. No one announced it - it went round the conference. At the dinner a few words were said by Sefton…

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Abstract: It is essential for law students to acquire knowledge about the applicable general rules of law. A major source of applicable rules within the Dutch legal system is, next to statutes, the category of decisions by judges. Law students…

In December 2011, the European Commission adopted its Open Data Strategy, aiming to make open data the standard in the Member States of the European Union. The strategy included a proposal to revise the 2003 Directive on the re-use of…

The recognition of human behaviours is a key challenge in several contexts, such as healthcare and surveillance, providing support for various applications. In particular in the healthcare domain the development of automated techniques for the recognition of human activity allows…