Short literature notices

How Short Is Too Short? Implications of Length and Framing on the Effectiveness of Privacy Notices

Privacy policies are often too long and difficult to understand, and are therefore ignored by users. Shorter privacy notices with clearer wording may increase users’ privacy awareness, particularly for emerging mobile and wearable devices with small screens. In this paper, we examine the potential of (1) shortening privacy notices, by removing privacy practices that a large majority of users ar...

A Novel Rubric for Rating the Quality of Retraction Notices

When a scientific article is found to be either fraudulent or erroneous, one course of action available to both the authors and the publisher is to retract said article. Unfortunately, not all retraction notices properly inform the reader of the problems with a retracted article. This study developed a novel rubric for rating and standardizing the quality of retraction notices, and used it to a...

Book Reviews & Short Notices

Book Reviews & Short Notices

Book Reviews & Short Notices