This research analyzes consumer privacy issues pertaining to the newly developing wireless marketing context, specifically, wireless advertising messaging (WAM). We develop a conceptual framework named as DIGs to assess the efficacy of industry self-regulation, government legislation, and technological solutions in ensuring consumer privacy in WAM. In addition to enhancing our theoretical under...

the private area (privacy) is a humanitarian issue and one of the concepts of developed lawful systems which is closely related to human dignity. therefore, supporting and protecting the individuals' personalities and the citizens' rights requires protection of privacy, which leads to human signification. privacy is not clearly and meaningfully supported, in iranian law. like the posi...

location-based services (lBS) use positioning technologies to provide individual users with reachability and accessibility that would otherwise not be available in the conventional commercial realm. While lBS confer greater connectivity and personalization on consumers, they also threaten users’ information privacy through granular tracking of their preferences, behaviors, and identity. To addr...

An increasing number of people are using the Internet, in many instances unaware of the information being collected about them. In contrast, other people concerned about the privacy and security issues are limiting their use of the Internet, abstaining from purchasing products online. Businesses should be aware that consumers are looking for privacy protection and a privacy statement can help t...

User-controlled identity management systems assist individuals in managing their private sphere. An individual’s privacy can be supported by transparency on processing of personal data. After giving an overview on transparency properties as well as its relation to privacy and data protection regulation, this text introduces different transparency tools: Prior to an interaction, information on t...

The concern about privacy issues has increased among web store customers. The merchants are trying to convince the public about the level of privacy on their sites by using privacy statements. This is not, however, an easy task, because the very nature of privacy is unclear. It is hard to define the requirements for a system that is capable of protecting the privacy of the users. The approach o...

Web personalization has demonstrated to be advantageous for both online customers and vendors. However, its benefits may be severely counteracted by privacy constraints. Personalized systems need to take users’ privacy concerns into account, as well as privacy laws and industry self-regulation that may be in effect. In this paper, we first discuss how these constraints may affect web-based pers...

The Special Workshop on Information Privacy will consist of a one-day presentation of high-quality research in the area of information privacy. It will include 1) invited papers by scholars from participating schools and 2) submitted papers. The day will include four sessions, each of which will feature two paper presentations by authors and ample time for discussion facilitated by a designated...

As information technologies increasingly expand the ability for organizations to store, process, and exploit personal data, privacy is at the center of discussion and controversy among multiple stakeholders including business leaders, privacy activists, and government regulators. Studies suggest that the loss of consumer confidence related to privacy fears has already hindered the growth of Bus...