Consumers' privacy concerns toward using location-based services: An exploratory framework and research proposal

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Xu, Heng ^a   Teo, Hock Hai ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Information Privacy; Location Based Services (LBS); Locus of Control (LOC); Perceived Control

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT LEGISLATIONS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INFORMATION PRIVACY; LOCUS OF CONTROL; MODERATING EFFECT; PRIVACY ASSURANCE; PRIVACY CONCERNS; RESEARCH MODELS; RESEARCH PROPOSALS; WIRELESS DEVICE MANUFACTURERS; WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; RESEARCH;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 84871016866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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