With the exponential growth of digitization and electronic market, personal data has taken on a key role for all individuals actively involved in the process. Any type of transaction, from the payment of a product or service to registration on a web site, requires extensive use of information...

Formal, government-driven technology standards developing organisations (SDOs) traditionally serve as platforms for compromise between existing national standards. In the past decade, the recognition of the driving role of SDOs in innovation has made them surface into the public debate. The...