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The increasing centralization of the Web raises serious concerns regarding privacy, security, and user autonomy. In response, there has been a renewed interest in the development of secure personal information management systems and a movement towards decentralization. Decentralized personal online data stores (pods) represent a revolutionary example within this movement, built on the W3C's existing guidelines – an approach exemplified by initiatives such as Solid (https://solidproject.org). In the Solid paradigm, individuals store their personal data in pods and have absolute discretion when choosing to grant access to different users and applications. A barrier to the adoption of the pod approach is the predominant reliance on centralized indexes for search functionality in current Web and Web-based systems. This paper introduces the ESPRESSO framework, which is designed to facilitate this new paradigm of large-scale searches within personal data stores while respecting the individual pod owners' data access governance. The current ESPRESSO prototype integrates access control within pod indexes to enhance distributed keyword-based search. ESPRESSO's unique contribution not only enhances search capabilities on the decentralized Web but also paves the way for future explorations in decentralized search technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's linguistically diverse world, managing personal information across multiple languages presents a challenge. This study engaged 16 multilingual participants to explore their user experience in the context of multilingual personal information management (MPIM), with a focus on inclusivity, universality, and equity. Addressing two main questions, the study explores the challenges users face on digital platforms in MPIM contexts and their ideal platform features. Findings highlight key issues in MPIM platform design, including unsupported languages and integration of visual aesthetics. We also identify user preferences for ideal platform features, such as language flexibility and efficient information retrieval. The study suggests the need for more inclusive, universal, and equitable platform designs that cater to the specific requirements of multilingual users. Ultimately, this study underscores the critical need for improved MPIM support and emphasizes the significance of continued exploration in this area, establishing it as a vital field of future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This theoretical paper introduces a conceptual framework for Personal Cultural Heritage Management (PCHM), derived from prior research on migrants' information practices. It elaborates on the literature background and the development of the PCHM framework, highlighting the role of personal information management (PIM) and personal collections in the creation, access and utilization of cultural heritage information. Design/methodology/approach: The study describes and explains the construction of the PCHM framework as a structured and self-motivated approach to personal heritage and identity learning. Findings: Following the theoretical background and assumptions, along with the presentation of the key building blocks, the paper describes the key components of the framework, outlines their definitions and provides examples. Research limitations/implications: Theoretically, PCHM extends the current literature by encapsulating processes and actions employed by individuals to manage personal collections for cultural identity purposes, thereby underscoring the critical role personal collections play in both preserving and communicating cultural heritage. Practical implications: PCHM can guide the development of support systems and policies to enhance cultural continuity and integration, thus empowering individuals to navigate their cultural identities confidently. Originality/value: The PCHM framework creates a unique intersection between PIM and cultural heritage, providing a new perspective for understanding the dynamic evolution and formation of cultural identity among migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the recent half-decade of privacy concern, the dominant intellectual and scholarly approach to privacy in the United States has been in the civil law tradition, assuming that statute law and administrative regulation would provide the rules. When legal thinkers of an economic bent pondered "propertizing" information at the dawn of the Internet era, they remained in the civilian mold, as most envisioned designing a property regime for personal information, not inding one, as judges do in the common law tradition. Meanwhile, information has acquired the characteristics of property in the common law sense. Consumers and businesses each in their way and for their purposes withhold or hoard personal information, trade it, process it, profit from it, and enjoy other rights to personal information in the "bundle of sticks" that make up property rights. It is time to recognize that important development. After reviewing legal scholarship in this area, this article defines information and personal information for the purposes of legal administration. Then it shows how online service providers' contract terms divvy up property rights in the information shared and created in the course of their relationships with customers. These contracts generally give the right to possession and use of this information to the service provider while keeping the right to exclude others, on the whole, with the consumer. These contracts do not create mere rights between parties. They have as their subject matter an item of property in which people have a right against the world. U.S. Supreme Court cases validate this view, as do state supreme courts. America's highest Court has treated information as property in the common-law sense and contracts as allocations of property rights. Select state supreme courts have recognized information as property subject to conversion actions. It is a widely held premise in federal appeals court actions dealing with information that the thing at issue is property, even while the primacy of statute law has deflected courts from finding directly that information is property according to common law. In several respects, recognizing information as property protects consumers and enhances their rights vis a vis both service providers and third parties. Common treatment of personal information as property squares with a number of property theories. Parallels can be observed between the pre-historic development of property rights in land, property rights in movables historically, and property rights in information in the present day. A number of concerns and challenges stem from recognition of information as property. One springs from the pitfalls of designing a property rights regime, which common law recognition does not do. Recognizing property rights in information also does not imply that all property is owned; conventional property theory provides the dividing line between owned and unowned information. Diminution of speech could result from recognition of property rights in information, but the First Amendment does not create a right to take others' information. Courts can police the appropriate line between people's information and others' capacity to acquire and use it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper considers what liberal philosopher Michael Sandel coins the 'moral limits of markets' in relation to the idea of paying people for data about their biometrics and emotions. With Sandel arguing that certain aspects of human life (such as our bodies and body parts) should be beyond monetisation and exchange, others argue that emerging technologies such as Personal Information Management Systems can enable a fairer, paid, data exchange between the individual and the organisation, even regarding highly personal data about our bodies and emotions. With the field of data ethics rarely addressing questions of payment, this paper explores normative questions about data dividends. It does so by conducting a UK-wide, demographically representative online survey to quantitatively assess adults' views on being paid for personal data about their biometrics and emotions via a Personal Information Management System, producing a data dividend, a premise which sees personal data through the prism of markets and property. The paper finds diverse attitudes based on socio-demographic characteristics, the type of personal data sold, and the type of organisation sold to. It argues that (a) Sandel's argument regarding the moral limits of markets has value in protecting fundamental freedoms of those in society who are arguably least able to (such as the poor); but (b) that contexts of use, in particular, blur moral limits regarding fundamental freedoms and markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Personal information security has become a critical concern in the digital era, so it is imperative to clearly delimit and define personal information. This study examines personal information legislation from a sociosemiotic perspective to identify the similarities and differences between legislation in the United States and China. It reviews the evolution of personal information in both countries, and explores their differences in the definition of privacy, the status quo of personal information legislation, the definition of personal information and cross-border personal information flow. The findings indicate that (1) personal information, noted as a social sign, has context-sensitive characteristics, i.e., spatiality and temporality; (2) the meaning-making process of personal information is a continuum; and (3) there exists an intersemiotic operation between language, law and society. Such a sociosemiotic exploration can shed light on relevant studies in the sociosemiotic analysis of legal discourse in particular as well as other context-sensitive discourses in general. Plain Language Summary: Purpose: This research explores personal information legislation in the United States and China, using a socio-semiotic lens to illuminate the symbolic meanings of personal information in today's digital world. Methods: Utilizing textual comparison and case analysis, the study systematically compares legal documents and precedents from both countries related to personal information, examining through the semiotic lenses of temporality and spatiality. Conclusions: The study finds that personal information, as a sign, has inherent spatial and temporal attributes. Its meaning, while continuously evolving with technology, is majorly focused on personally identifiable information in both U.S. and Chinese laws. A notable contrast is highlighted in the spatial aspect within the U.S. and China's legal frameworks, shaped by distinct legal traditions and societal values. Implications: The research highlights the crucial role of international collaboration, like the GDPR enforcement, in addressing legal differences and conflicts across countries. Developing international standards in personal information protection is vital for advancing relevant industries and ensuring global digital ecosystem stability. Limitations: While providing a detailed analysis, the study's focus on socio-semiotics and legal texts might overlook other essential aspects of personal information legislation and actual enforcement practices in real-world scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the importance of training future security professionals in AI and LLM application security due to the rapid adoption of AI technology. It emphasizes the need for foundational AI knowledge, understanding risks specific to GenAI and LLM, and compliance with regulatory requirements like the EU AI Act. The text also highlights the OWASP Top 10 risks for LLMs and the significance of hands-on training, simulation-based learning, and industry certifications to prepare professionals for securing AI systems effectively. Overall, the focus is on building expertise in AI security to ensure safety, privacy, and ethical responsibility in the deployment of AI technologies. [Extracted from the article]

AbstractPeople use diverse read-it-later tools to save webpages for future uses; however, difficulties in scrap retrieval remain. Our study aims to understand users’ mental models of read-it-later tools and suggests a new tool, Read-It-Now, for web scraping. We conducted interviews to identify web scraping habits and developed four main design recommendations for read-it-later tools: tool hierarchy, contextual aids, proactive triggers, and multiple navigation strategies. With a focus on the proactive trigger that facilitates scrap retrieval, Read-It-Now is designed to recommend relevant web scraps based on a comparison of the title of the current browser tab. We tested the design prototype against traditional bookmarks and found that users preferred Read-It-Now because of its simplicity and effectiveness; however, explanations for scrap recommendations could be improved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While service and operational records of the US armed forces have been previously investigated, personal communication records of military personnel have received less attention in archival scholarship. Specifically, we are concerned with the ways that changes in technology challenge the preservation of personal communications records. This issue is important because personal communication records of service members, both active and retired, can support military personnel and their families in managing the stress of deployment. Moreover, such records can help military families cope with grief when a service member dies. In this study, we address this gap by exploring the communication practices of US military personnel who served between 2005 and 2020. We focus on how military personnel communicated with their friends and family, the records that resulted from such communications, and the impacts of information technologies and institutional policies of the armed forces in said recordkeeping practices. We found that these practices evolved in tandem with the information and communication technologies available to them, that military personnel employed a relational approach to records and recordkeeping, and that recordkeeping practices of personal communications were directly connected to factors such as the information policies of the armed forces and the blurred lines between the on and off duty lives of active service members. Based on our findings, we suggest that future work should develop guidelines that help service members and their families prioritize which personal communications to record and keep. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to conduct the Turkish adaptation, validity, and reliability study of the Theory of Mind Inventory-2 (TOMI-2) developed by Hutchins and Prelock (2016) for 3-5-year-old children. The study group consists of 310 mothers with children in the 3-5 age group in Konya city center. Personal Information Form and Theory of Mind Inventory-2 (TOMI-2) were used as data collection tools in the study. After the TOMI-2 was translated into Turkish, the normality assumption was checked with the "Shapiro-Wilk" test. The relationship between two continuous variables was evaluated with the Pearson Correlation Coefficient. Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Content Validity, Criterion Validity, and Reliability analyses were also used in the study. The findings of the analyses show that the Turkish version of the TOMI-2 is a valid and reliable measurement tool for children aged 3-5, with 60 items in the original form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's information age, personalized recommendations have permeated every aspect of people's lives, becoming an indispensable service on major mainstream websites. By considering users' past interaction habits and preferences, personalized recommendation systems cater to the unique needs of individuals, presenting content that aligns with their interests. However, research on news recommendations, compared to fields such as ecommerce and music, remains relatively scarce and faces significant challenges, particularly in identifying news choices that may engage readers amidst information overload. This study designed and implemented a personalized hot news recommendation mechanism based on collaborative filtering technology. The system was developed using the SSM framework, incorporating software engineering principles with UML modeling. The front-end interface was built and deployed using the Bootstrap framework, while the back-end interface construction was supported by the Layui front-end framework. MySQL served as the storage system for news information. The core services of the personalized news push system include user account creation and login, personal information management, information search, news content evaluation, customized content push, and administrator-end information supervision. The customized push service, in particular, relies on collaborative filtering technology, tag-based recommendation strategies, and mechanisms for tracking current hot topics to achieve its goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Privacy concerns are on the rise, and lawmakers and regulators around the world are responding with widespread legislative action led by the United States and the European Union. The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") and many other state laws across the United States, together with congressional proposals, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, and similar laws in the rest of the world, all provide people with new data control rights. The formal objective of these rights is to provide control over people's personal information, and they include the right to access one's personal information, the right to delete it, and the right to opt-out of its sale to third parties. Data control rights are the centerpiece of all these new laws and the ultimate response we are seeing to concerns about surveillance capitalism. But do data control rights work in practice? This Article empirically investigates whether consumers use their data control rights. It leverages a unique opportunity to answer this crucial and thus far open question, presented by the CCPA. This Article is based on an original dataset: It collects and analyzes, for the first time, usage metrics reported by firms under a CCPA Regulations requirement. This Article adds a novel contribution to the discussion about data control rights and the regulation of the information economy more broadly--part theoretical, part empirical, and part normative. First, this Article explores the origins of data control rights and the goals that have shaped them. To study the effectiveness of a law, it is necessary to compare its intended goals and idealized theoretical outcomes with a measurement of the real-world outcomes that the law has generated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: In current study, we aimed to determine relationship between social media addictions, emotion regulation skills and sleep quality of university students. Materials and Methods: Research was conducted in descriptive design. The sample of study consisted of 450 university students. Personal information form, Social Media Addiction Scale (SMAS), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were used to obtain the data. Results: The mean total score of the SMAS of the students is 97.33±26.78. Mean scores of sub-dimensions of CERQ "Self-Blame", "Acceptance", " Rumination", "Positive Refocusing", "Refocusing on Plan", "Positive Reappraisal ", " Putting into Perspective", " Catastrophising " and "Blaming Others" are respectively; 11.23±2.78, 11.85±2.80, 13, .32±3.17, 12.19±2.81, 13.78±3.24, 13.44±3.32, 12.36±2.90, 10.40±2.95, 10.61±2.97. The mean total score of was PSQI 7.91±3.01. Conclusion: It was found that 31.5% of university students are moderately addicted to social media and their sleep quality is poor. As social media addiction increases, sleep quality worsens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction. Music streaming services have changed how music is played and perceived, but also how it is managed by individuals. Voice interfaces to such services are becoming increasingly com-mon, for example through voice assistants on mobile and smart devices, and have the poten-tial to further change personal music management by introducing new beneficial features and new challenges. Method. To explore the implications of voice assistants for personal music listening and management we surveyed 248 participants online and in a lab setting to investigate (a) in which situa-tions people use voice assistants to play music, (b) how the situations compare to established activities common during non-voice assistant music listening, and (c) what kinds of com-mands they use. Analysis. We categorised 653 situations of voice assistant use, which reflect differences to non-voice assistant music listening, and established 11 command types, which mostly reflect finding or refinding activities but also indicate keeping and organisation activities. Results. Voice assistants have some benefits for music listening and personal music management, but also a notable lack of support for traditional personal information management activities, like browsing, that are common when managing music. Conclusion. Having characterised the use of voice assistants to play music, we consider their role in per-sonal music management and make suggestions for improved design and future research.

While there are challenges in transferring personal information management (PIM) research into products, PIM research does, over time, filter through into commercial systems, and practical systems often exhibit innovation that can guide future PIM research. This paper uses two approaches to understand some potential future directions for PIM research and practice. First, it deconstructs the term “personal information management” to understand how PIM techniques and tools intersect with other academic areas. Second, it examines a small selection of popular PIM tools to see how they shed light on actual adoption of PIM systems. It uses lessons from these in a more open discussion of potential future developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The scarcity of medical resources and personnel has worsened due to COVID-19. Telemedicine faces challenges in assessing wounds without physical examination. Evaluating pressure injuries is time consuming, energy intensive, and inconsistent. Most of today's telemedicine platforms utilize graphical user interfaces with complex operational procedures and limited channels for information dissemination. The study aims to establish a smart telemedicine diagnosis system based on YOLOv7 and large language model. Methods: The YOLOv7 model is trained using a clinical data set, with data augmentation techniques employed to enhance the data set to identify six types of pressure injury images. The established system features a front-end interface that includes responsive web design and a chatbot with ChatGPT, and it is integrated with a database for personal information management. Results: This research provides a practical pressure injury staging classification model with an average F1 score of 0.9238. The system remotely provides real-time accurate diagnoses and prescriptions, guiding patients to seek various medical help levels based on symptom severity. Conclusions: This study establishes a smart telemedicine auxiliary diagnosis system based on the YOLOv7 model, which possesses capabilities for classification and real-time detection. During teleconsultations, it provides immediate and accurate diagnostic information and prescription recommendations and seeks various medical assistance based on the severity of symptoms. Through the setup of a chatbot with ChatGPT, different users can quickly achieve their respective objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this study is to examine the level of phubbing of parents with children in early childhood and their perspectives on their children's phubbing behaviours. The research was designed using a simultaneous nested model of mixed design, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The study group for the research consisted of 183 parents with children in early childhood. The Personal Information Form, the Generic Scale of Phubbing adapted into Turkish by Orhan Göksün (2019), and the Phubbing (Sociotelism) in Early Childhood Questionnaire prepared by the researchers to explore parents' views on the phubbing behaviours of children in early childhood were used as data collection tools in the study. In the analysis of the data obtained from the Phubbing (Sociotelism) in Early Childhood Questionnaire, a weighted mean was calculated for the Likert-type questions, and content analysis was used for the open-ended questions in the questionnaire. When the mean scores obtained from the Generic Scale of Phubbing were examined, it was found that the mean from the nomophobia sub-dimension was relatively higher than the other sub-dimensions. In line with the qualitative findings obtained from the study, it was observed that parents' children mostly used mobile phones in a controlled or regulated manner. Parents stated that the reasons for their children's phone use were primarily loneliness or boredom, and they expressed dissatisfaction with their children's phone use. It was determined that parents mostly had difficulties due to their children's problem behaviours in using phones, had insufficient knowledge about the applications on the phones, had difficulty controlling the content, and felt inadequate in providing alternative activities instead of using phones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. This paper reports the findings of a survey on personal electronic records management practices focussing on records that people deal with in their everyday lives at home. The aim of this research was to determine which personal electronic records practices were most effective in averting oversights and generating satisfaction in participant’s records management practices. This paper presents one stage of a broader design science research program. Method. The research for this paper was conducted by means of an online questionnaire using Qualtrics software and participants were recruited through social media. Analysis. Analysis was conducted using tabular analysis in SPSS, and Principal Component Analysis in R. Results. The research found that there is a statistical relationship between the practices that respondents adopted with their personal electronic records management and their level of satisfaction with that process. For example, respondents who saved records on a computer or in the cloud reported higher levels of satisfaction with how they managed their personal records and experienced fewer adverse incidents such as losing documents or failing to pay bills on time. Conclusion. The paper concludes by identifying some specific personal records management practices that are likely to improve satisfaction with that task, such as saving and sorting records that need to be retained outside of email in a structured filing system.

We study the role of private information in the equity lending market in a rational expectations model with endogenous loan fees. When all investors are privately informed, an increase in information precision reduces the fee by increasing trade aggressiveness and decreasing demand dispersion. However, when some investors are uninformed, the information asymmetry tends to increase the fee, and, thus, the overall effect of an increase in precision is ambiguous. We show that the fee can be incrementally informative given the stock price and that fee opaqueness tends to increase the fee but has an ambiguous effect on the stock price. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study how dynamic research affects information acquisition in financial markets. In our strategic trading model, the trader performs costly research to generate private information but does not always succeed. Optimal research activity responds to market conditions and generates novel implications. First, more frequent public disclosures can "crowd in" private information acquisition, increase price informativeness, and harm liquidity, instead of "leveling the playing field." Second, observed research activity does not necessarily imply that traders are better informed. Finally, improvements in research effectiveness or higher market participation by uninformed investors can simultaneously increase price informativeness and liquidity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The FEI convened on October 1, 2024, to address concerns about unethical methods in horse training, particularly in dressage. Stakeholders discussed developing a long-term strategy for dressage to ensure sustainability and growth in the discipline. Key proposals included mandatory trainer registration, defining ethical training methods, and enhancing transparency to engage with the broader public and stakeholders. The focus was on improving equine welfare, revising rules thoughtfully, and fostering collaboration within the dressage community. [Extracted from the article]