Noticing notice: A large-scale experiment on the timing of software license agreements

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 607-616

  Good, Nathaniel S ^a   Grossklags, Jens ^a   Mulligan, Deirdre K ^b   Konstan, Joseph A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

End user license agreement; Notice; Privacy; Security; Spyware; Timing

Indexed keywords

END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA); SPYWARE; TIMING;

DATA PRIVACY; DECISION MAKING; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 35348905154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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