An analysis of privacy signals on the World Wide Web: Past, present and future

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1102-1115

  Reay, I ^a   Dick, S ^a   Miller, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project; Privacy protection; Signaling theory; User agents; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNALING; SURVEYS; WEB SERVICES;

ECONOMIC SECTORS; GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS; ONLINE PRIVACIES; PLATFORM FOR PRIVACY PREFERENCES (P3P) PROJECT; PRIVACY POLICIES; PRIVACY PROTECTION; SIGNALING THEORY; USER AGENTS; WORLD ECONOMIES; WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 59149083360     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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