Clients may feel trapped into sharing their private digital data with insurance companies to get a desired insurance product or premium. However, private insurance must collect some data to offer products and premiums appropriate to the client’s level of risk. This situation creates tension...

Trust and monitoring are traditionally antithetical concepts. Describing trust as a property of a relationship of reliance, we introduce a theory of trust and monitoring, which uses mathematical models based on two classes of functions, including q-exponentials, and relates the levels of trust...

Here we provide an ethical analysis of discrimination in private insurance to guide the application of non-discriminatory algorithms for risk prediction in the insurance context. This addresses the need for ethical guidance of data-science experts and business managers. The reference to private...

How do we perceive our future selves? The neurobehavioral basis of one's perception of the future self -- What is the nature of the relationship in which we stand with our future selves? Practical and moral issues of one's perception of the future self -- How should we treat our future selves?...

Der Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz im Personalmanagement steckt noch in den Kinderschuhen. Gerade deshalb stellt sich die Frage, wie sie überhaupt zu besseren und faireren Personalentscheidungen beitragen kann. In seinem Gutachten entwickelt Michele Loi von der Universität Zürich...

This article highlights major results of a study into the ethical norms and rules governing biobanks. After describing the methodology, the findings regarding four topics are presented: (1) the ownership of human biological samples held in biobanks; (2) the regulation of researchers' use of...

To explore detainees and staff's attitudes towards tobacco use, in order to assist prison administrators to develop an ethically acceptable tobacco control policy based on stakeholders’ opinion.

Der Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz im Personalmanagement steckt noch in den Kinderschuhen. Gerade deshalb stellt sich die Frage, wie sie überhaupt zu besseren und faireren Personalentscheidungen beitragen kann. In seinem Gutachten entwickelt Michele Loi von der Universität Zürich...