Any freely given specific and informed indication of the data subject’s wishes by which the data subject signifies his agreement to personal data relating to him being processed.
Published in Chapter:
Privacy Issues in Public Web Sites
Eleutherios A. Papathanassiou (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) and Xenia J. Mamakou (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-857-4.ch024
Abstract
The advent of the Internet has altered the way that individuals find information and has changed how they engage with many organizations, like government, health care, and commercial enterprises. The emergence of the World Wide Web has also resulted in a significant increase in the collection and process of individuals’ information electronically, which has lead to consumers concerns about privacy issues. Many researches have reported the customers’ worries for the possible misuse of their personal data during their transactions on the Internet (Earp & Baumer, 2003; Furnell & Karweni, 1999), while investigation has been made in measuring individuals’ concerns about organizational information privacy practices (Smith, Milberg & Burke, 1996). Information privacy, which “concerns an individual’s control over the processing, that is the acquisition, disclosure, and use, of personal information” (Kang, 1998) has been reported as one of the most important “ethical issues of the information age” (Mason, 1986).