Online privacy as legal safeguard: The relationship among consumer, online portal, and privacy policies

New Media and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 715-734

  Fernback, Jan ^a   Papacharissi, Zizi ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Privacy; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348861373     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807080336     Document Type: Article

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