Mobile Privacy Expectations

doi:10.1017/9781316831960.005

5 - Mobile Privacy Expectations

How Privacy Is Respected with Mobile Devices

from Part II - The Pervasiveness and Value of Tracking Technologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2018

Kirsten Martin and

Edited by

Jules Polonetsky and

Evan Selinger: Affiliation:
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
Jules Polonetsky: Affiliation:
Future of Privacy Forum
Omer Tene: Affiliation:
International Association of Privacy Professionals

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy , pp. 85 - 101

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