Privacy cynicism: A new approach to the privacy paradox
Vol.10,No.4(2016)
Online privacy; institutional privacy concerns; privacy cynicism; scale development; focus groups
Christian Pieter Hoffmann
Christoph Lutz
Giulia Ranzini
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