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Doing business electronicly: Electronic Commerce and Recordkeeping

Agents Identity and Trust

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Doing business electronicly: Electronic Commerce and Recordkeeping

Agents Identity and trust

‘Trust is the expectation that arises within a community, of regular, honest, and cooperative behavior, based on commonly shared norms, on the other part of other members of that community. Those norms can be about deep “value” questions like the nature of God or justice, but they also encompass secular norms like professional standards and codes of behavior. That is, we trust a doctor not to do us deliberate injury because we expect him or her to live by the Hippocratic oath and the standards of the medical profession’. Trust: the Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, Francis Fukuyama, Penguin Group, London, 1995 P. 26.

Legal and social relationships

Identity and trust in records

‘A trustworthy record is one that is both an accurate statement of facts and a genuine manifestation of those facts. Record trustworthiness thus has two qualitative dimensions: reliability and authenticity. Reliability means that the record is capable of standing for the facts to which it attests, while authenticity means that the record is what it claims to be.’ Heather MacNeil, ‘Trusting Records: The Evolution of Legal, Historical, and Diplomatic Methods of Assessing the Trustworthiness of Records, from Antiquity to the Digital Age’, PhD Dissertation The University of British Columbia, October, 1998

E-commerce environment and trust

E-commerce environment and trust

Identity and trust in records: the privacy issue

Proposed legislation in Australia re private sector

 Author: Livia Iacovino

Email: barbara.reed@recordkeeping.com.au

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