In the United States, Congress has had a long-standing interest in consumer privacy and the extent to which company practices are based on fair information practices. Previously, public policy was largely informed by anecdotal evidence about the effectiveness of industry self-regulatory programs. However, the Internet has made it possible to unobtrusively sample web sites and their privacy disc...

Cloud computing is providing a low cost on demand services to the users, omnipresent network, large storage capacity due to these features of cloud computing web applications are moving towards the cloud and due to this migration of the web application, cloud computing platform is raised many issues like privacy, security etc. Privacy issue are major concern for the cloud computing. Privacy is ...

It is well-known that switching costs may facilitate monopoly pricing in a market with price competition between two suppliers of a homogenous good, provided the switching cost is above some critical level. We show that introducing consumer heterogeneity tends to increase the critical switching cost and thereby reduce the stability of the collusive outcome. A testable implication is that widesp...

The development of electronic commerce is characterized with anonymity, uncertainty, lack of control and potential opportunism. Therefore, the success of electronic commerce significantly depends on providing security and privacy for its consumers’ sensitive personal data. Consumers’ lack of acceptance in electronic commerce adoption today is not merely due to the concern on security and privac...

Cases 1, 2, and 3 can be represented and solved using a single general formulation. Let α and β denote the proportion of those consumers who are willing to share personal information with firm A and B, respectively. There are different values for α (β), depending on firm A’s (firm B’s) protection choice; α = β = u in case (Case 1); α = u + v and β = u in case ...

Ubiquitous IS enables novel services and business models, yet require a careful balancing of consumer privacy concerns (PC) – induced by the provision of particular sensors and information types – with functional performance in order to maximize acceptance. For the exemplary case of Usage-based Insurance (UBI), this paper presents a design science approach to the mitigation of PC under parallel...

The primary responsibility of the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) is to protect online consumer privacy by developing an organization’s privacy policy and ensuring compliance with privacy laws and regulations. However, the explosive growth of internet use for business has brought about an escalation of concerns including reduced consumer confidence in internet-related business activities, risk of f...

An important aspect of e-business is the area of e-commerce. One of the most severe restraining factors for the proliferation of e-commerce, is the lack of trust between customers and sellers, consumer privacy concerns and the lack of security measures required to assure both businesses and customers that their business relationship and transactions will be carried out in privacy, correctly, an...

Many organizations are adopting radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies. These technologies can provide many benefits to the organizations that use them. However, many of these RFID tags remain active after the consumers purchase them. We call these RFID tags, placed in a product for one purpose and left in the product after it has served that purpose, Residual RFIDs. Residual RFID t...

The likelihood of consumers to use commercial location-based services significantly depends on their perception of privacy protection by the service provider. In this paper we discuss existing privacy-enhancing architectures for LBS and argue that they are either not applicable or insufficient for services requiring continuous location queries. In order to offer such services providers often pr...