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SUBMISSION DUE DATE:June 30, 2010

SPECIAL ISSUE ON Privacy and Security Issues in IT
International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach
(IJITSA)

Guest Editors:
Dr. Vasilis Katos Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Dr. Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, England and

INTRODUCTION:
The topic of this special issue is motivated by the ease of collection,
processing and dissemination of personal data and the concern about the
unintended use or misuse of these data. Monitoring technologies are a
fundamental component in IS security that serve as a policy violation
detection mechanism but the expanding scope of ICT now means that it is
not just the client that is affected but often the wider community e.g.
CCTV monitoring as what may have been designed for specific end-users now
impacts itself upon the majority. Monitoring has turned into systematic
surveillance of emails, telephone usage and through CCTV general citizen
activities. In a society where privacy is a fundamental human right the
antagonism between privacy and security is a research issue of
significance IS researchers as IS itself constitutes the means for feeding
such antagonism between security and the privacy of the individual. This
special issue invites a range of topics related to Privacy and the
associated security issues created by the technology.

OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
To obtain a view of the issues underpinning the design and development of
systems capable of balancing the privacy needs of the stakeholders against
information security controls through a widely accepted use and
application of the underlying technologies.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited
to) the following:

•Privacy preservation technologies for the citizen
•Methodologies for analysing privacy requirements of an Information System
•Protection of biometric data
•Analysis and development of a systems view of security and its impact
upon individual privacy
•The Economics of security and privacy
•The behavioural impact of monitoring and surveillance technologies
•Opportunities and threats in emerging applications utilizing personal data
•Privacy-centric systems


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this
special theme issue Privacy and Security Issues in IT on or before June 
30, 2010. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by
another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S
GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pdf.
All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review
basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.

All submissions should be directed to the attention of:
Guest Editor:
Dr Vasilis Katos
vkatos@el.duth.gr

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ABOUT International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems
Approach (IJITSA):  The Journal of Information Technologies and Systems
Approach (IJITSA) is an academic and practitioner journal created to
disseminate and discuss high quality research results on Information
Systems and related upper and lower level Systems as well as on its
interactions with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Complex
Systems and Philosophy issues, through rigorous Theoretical, Modeling,
Engineering or Behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain,
predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop
organizational systems where Information Systems are the main objects of
study and the Systems Approach –any variant- is the main research
methodology and philosophical stance used. This journal is an official
publication of the Information Resources Management Association
(http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsa)

IJITSA EDITORIAL  BOARD
•	Frank Stowell (EiC),	University of Portsmouth, England
•	Denis Edgar-Nevill (SAE), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
•	Miroljub Kljajic (SAE), University of Maribor, Slovenia
•	Amitava Dutta (SAE), George Mason University, USA
•	Yasmin Merali (SAE), University of Warwick, UK
•	David Brown (SAE), University of Lancaster, UK
•	Robert Cloutier (SAE), Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
•	James R. Burns (SAE), Texas Tech University, USA
•	Rory O'Connor (SAE), Dublin City University, Ireland
•	Manuel Mora (OEiC), Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, México

Published: Semi annual (both in Print and Electronic form)

PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems
Approach (IJITSA) is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.),
publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group
Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference”, “Business Science
Reference”, and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional
information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com
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Manuel Mora, EngD.
Full Professor and Researcher "C" Level
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
Ave. Universidad 940
Aguascalientes, Ags.
México 20100
www.uaa.mx
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