RFID and consumer privacy

Journal of Internet Commerce

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 513-527

  Clarke, Irvine ^a   Flaherty, Theresa B ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer privacy; Customer relationships; E Commerce technology; Information security ethics; Personally identifiable information; Privacy; Radio frequency identification; RFID

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149163084     PISSN: 15332861     EISSN: 1533287X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15332860802507370     Document Type: Article

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