Why experience matters to privacy: How context-based experience moderates consumer privacy expectations for mobile applications

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1871-1882

  Martin, Kirsten ^a   Shilton, Katie ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

information policy; privacy; telecommunications networks

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY; INFORMATION POLICY; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS;

DATA PRIVACY;

CONSUMER; DECISION MAKING; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; MOBILE APPLICATION; PRIVACY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84978997793     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23500     Document Type: Article

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