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Consent as a Threat. A Critical Approach to Privacy Negotiation in e-Commerce Practices

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Although e-commerce systems are increasingly concerned with data protection, they follow a property-based approach to privacy which leads to privacy negotiation and bargaining upon the base of the data subjects’ consent. After considering the technological and regulative strategies of protecting consumer privacy, this paper discusses the shortcomings of that approach and claims that, as long as a general privacy culture has not yet evolved in the (web) society, it might collide with the notion of data protection as a fundamental right.

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  1. Faculty of Law, University of Zaragoza, Ciudad Universitaria, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain

    A. Daniel Oliver-Lalana

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  1. Dept. of Technology Education and Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 150 Androutsou St., GR-18532, Pireaus, Greece

    Sokratis Katsikas

  2. Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña, Spain

    Javier Lopez

  3. University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, Regensburg, Germany

    Günther Pernul

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Oliver-Lalana, A.D. (2004). Consent as a Threat. A Critical Approach to Privacy Negotiation in e-Commerce Practices. In: Katsikas, S., Lopez, J., Pernul, G. (eds) Trust and Privacy in Digital Business. TrustBus 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30079-3_12

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