Online privacy policies : do they really protect consumers' privacy?

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Damayanti Iman Abadi
• مؤلفون آخرون: Tan, Margaret
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• منشور في: 2008
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Media law, ethics and policy
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1765
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Privacy concerns have often been considered as barriers to the growth of e-commerce. To help consumers alleviate their privacy concerns, companies post online privacy policies on websites. However, the presence alone does not imply that a website provides protection to consumers’ privacy. The foremo...