Transparency & Privacy

The Transparency Agenda of the 2010/1 UK Coalition government promises to revolutionise government, public services and public engagement, by ‘holding politicians and public bodies to account, reducing the deficit and delivering better value for money in public spending, and realising significant economic benefits by enabling businesses and non-profit organisations to build innovative applications and websites using public data’, to quote the then Prime Minister. This is an ambitious programme with laudable aims, yet it naturally has limits.

INFO6003 (2013) Towards a formal framework for computation trust -- paper

the introduction of this research paper (especially pg 2-4) and its list of references may be useful to clarify the notions of Bayesian learning applied to trust as explained in the lectures. This is optional reading

An analysis of trust in anonymity networks in the presence of adaptive attackers

Introduces extended Crowds protocols. Optional reading