This paper presents a general overview of the recent rise of mobile networks and their related applications, focusing on the particular case of mobile networks and technologies applied to the early detection and management of emergencies, crisis, and conflict events. It then raises the question of how these new developments could endanger the privacy and security of their end users and briefly reviews some of the state-of-the art proposed solutions. The paper concludes by stressing the need to articulate privacy-friendly technologies to harness the full potential of mobile networks in dealing with conflict events.

This paper presents a general overview of the recent rise of mobile networks and their related applications, focusing on the particular case of mobile networks and technologies applied to the early detection and management of emergencies, crisis, and conflict events. It then raises the question of how these new developments could endanger the privacy and security of their end users and briefly reviews some of the state-of-the art proposed solutions. The paper concludes by stressing the need to articulate privacy-friendly technologies to harness the full potential of mobile networks in dealing with conflict events.

The Internet and Information Systems evolution have dramatically increased the amount of information hold by governments and companies. This information can be very sensitive, specially regarding personal data, so governments and industries promote acts and guidelines in order to ensure privacy and data security. Thus, companies have to consider legal and Information Technology (IT) compliance. Nevertheless, compliance assessment is still a manual task performed by experts, but steps towards an automated compliance assessment, both in IT and legal, are in progress. In this paper we introduce the Neurona framework, a software application based on legal and security ontologies that aims at providing organizations with legal compliance support.

This paper describes the analysis of the requirements and the knowledge acquisition process for the development of a legal ontology for the representation of data protection knowledge in the framework of the NEURONA project. This modular ontology is used in the NEURONA application to reason about the correctness of the measures of protection applied to these data files by an organization. In this sense the use of legal ontologies could not only provide legal professionals and citizens with better access to legal information, but could also support data protection and privacy compliance in organizations and administrations.

This paper describes relevant projects of the Institute of Law and Technology (IDT-UAB) on the area of legal semantic applications based on legal ontologies. It focuses on the description of the IURISERVICE (on-call judicial problems), NEURONA (data protection), and ONTOMEDIA (mediation) projects.

In this paper we describe the steps taken to model expert knowledge within the mediation domain as the basis for the design of the Mediation Core Ontology (MCO), of which we also offer a first outline of its present stage of development. MCO is created from scratch by eliciting practical knowledge from mediation experts to identify the basic working concepts of the domain. MCO offers initial support towards knowledge acquisition and reasoning and, in later steps, will serve as a general basis for the development of different mediation domain and sub-domain ontologies to be used by the ONTOMEDIA mediation platform, currently also under development.

In this paper we present the process leading to the design of a legal ontology modelling data protection knowledge in the framework of the Neurona project. The ontology tries to combine simplicity and concreteness to solve the issue of how to properly classify files and notify the user whether the files are compliant or not with the Spanish data protection law. And, due to the constraints brought by the need to embed ontologies in a software application, we face the ontology design process by trying to focus on the reutilization and the introduction of new knowledge within the ontology.

The goal of this paper is to guide through some obscure parts of the regulation and legislation related to technology. Even if we are not experts on security Internet, we will try to explain the difficulties that lawyers should be aware of when regulating rights and limits in the net. Some real cases related to service providers (ISP and others) are described and complemented with the technological context of each case.

In this paper we introduce the Mediation Core Ontology (MCO), and the steps taken in order to model the expert knowledge on the mediation domain. MCO is created from scratch by eliciting practical knowledge from mediation experts to identify the basic working concepts of the domain. MCO offers initial support towards knowledge acquisition and reasoning and, in later steps, will serve as a general basis for the development of different mediation domain and sub-domain ontologies to be used by the ONTOMEDIA mediation platform, currently also under development.