Watching me, watching you: Privacy attitudes and reactions to identity card implementation scenarios in the United Kingdom

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 334-343

  Joinson, Adam N ^a   Paine, Carina ^a   Buchanan, Tom ^b   Reips, Ulf Dietrich ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Identity cards; Privacy

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

IDENTITY CARDS; IMPLEMENTATION SCENARIOS;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 33748538645     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506064902     Document Type: Article

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