Many experts say lack of trust will not be a barrier to increased public reliance on the internet. Those who are hopeful that trust will grow expect technical and regulatory change will combat users' concerns about security and privacy. Those who have doubts about progress say people are inured to risk, addicted to convenience and will not be offered alternatives to online interaction. Some expect the very nature of trust will change. Trust is a social, economic and political binding agent. A vast research literature on trust and 'social capital' documents the connections between trust and personal happiness, trust and other of well-being, trust and collective problem solving, trust and...
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