Why we can't be bothered to read privacy policies models of privacy economics as a lemons market

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 50, Issue , 2003, Pages 403-407

  Vila, Tony ^a   Greenstadt, Rachel ^a   Molnar, David ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; CONSUMER INFORMATION; EMPIRICAL DATA; PRIVACY POLICIES; PRIVACY REQUIREMENTS; PRIVACY SEALS; PRIVATE INFORMATION;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77954490140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/948005.948057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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