A United States perspective on the ethical and legal issues of spyware

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 113, Issue , 2005, Pages 738-743

  Sipior, Janice C ^a   Ward, Burke T ^a   Roselli, Georgina R ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethics; law; privacy; spyware; trespass

Indexed keywords

BENEFICIAL USE; DATA COLLECTION; DIRECT MARKETING; INDUSTRY SECTORS; INTERNET USERS; LEGAL CONCERN; LEGAL ISSUES; MARKETING TOOLS; PRIVACY INVASIONS; SPY-WARE;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; MARKETING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 51349095336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1089551.1089684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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