Online privacy as legal safeguard
The relationship among consumer, online portal, and privacy policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12655818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Fernback (Temple University, corresponding author), Zizi Papacharissi (0000-0001-7301-4620, Temple University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 715-734 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461444807080336 |
| OpenAlex | W2088719123 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 11 |
Several surveys attest to growing public concerns regarding privacy, aggravated by the diffusion of information technologies. A policy of self-regulation that allows individual companies to implement self-designed privacy statements is prevalent in the United States. These statements rarely provide specific privacy guarantees that personal information will be kept confidential. This study provides a discourse analysis of such privacy statements to determine their overall efficacy as a policy measure. The in-depth analysis of privacy statements revealed that they offer little protection to the consumer, instead serving to authorize business practices which allow companies to profit from consumer data. Using public good theory as a foundation, policy implications are discussed
Business · Computer security · Confidentiality · Consumer privacy · Information privacy · Internet privacy · Personally identifiable information · Political science · Privacy by Design · Privacy laws of the United States · Privacy policy · Privacy software · Public policy · Public relations · Computer Science · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Social Media and Politics · Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
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| Citations per year | 1.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |