Current measures to protect e-consumers' privacy in Australia

Online Consumer Protection: Theories of Human Relativism

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 123-150

  Ha, Huong ^a,b   Coghill, Ken ^a   Maharaj, Elizabeth Ann ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TMC Business School   (Singapore)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-012-7.ch006     Document Type: Chapter

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