Online information disclosure: Motivators and measurements

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 415-441

  Hui, Kai Lung ^a   Tan, Bernard C Y ^a   Goh, Chyan Yee ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Citrix Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Information disclosure; Information privacy; Internet business; Measurement; Motivators; Personality

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISCLOSURE; INFORMATION PRIVACY; INTERNET BUSINESS;

DATA PRIVACY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33845388608     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15576051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1183463.1183467     Document Type: Article

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