期刊名称：Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1547-5840
电子版ISSN：1547-5867
出版年度：2008
卷号：5
页码：177-196
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：The idea of the paper is to investigate how much the online user privacy is respected by website
owners, and how online privacy can be improved. We first focus ourselves on issues like possibilities
of misusing personal data, data collecting and user-tracking. Then we give a short report
about legislation in the EU concerning user privacy.
Some facts about user confidence are given as well. They are follows by a brief list of hints for
the users to protect their personal data when surfing the Web. Then we give an overview of actions
website owners should take in order to support user privacy. Finally, we present the results
of our investigation of the condition of user privacy in practice, and give some suggestions on its
improvement.
