P3P deployment on websites

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 274-293

  Cranor, Lorrie Faith ^a   Egelman, Serge ^a   Sheng, Steve ^a   McDonald, Aleecia M ^a   Chowdhury, Abdur ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

E commerce; P3P; Privacy policies; Search engines

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ERRORS; INTERNET; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADOPTION RATES; E-COMMERCE; END USERS; HIGH RATES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; P3P; PLATFORM FOR PRIVACY PREFERENCES; PRIVACY POLICIES; SEARCH ENGINES; SYNTAX ERRORS; TIME PERIODS; USER AGENT;

COMPUTER PRIVACY;

EID: 52049110745     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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