Privacy in electronic commerce and the economics of immediate gratification

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 21-29

  Acquisti, Alessandro ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic Commerce; Hyperbolic Discounting; Immediate Gratification; Privacy; Self Control Problems

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECURITY OF DATA; WAREHOUSES;

HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING; IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION; SELF-CONTROL PROBLEMS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 3242812017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/988772.988777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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