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| Author: | Swire, P. P. |
| Title: | When should "consumers-as-producers" have to comply with consumer protection laws? |
| Journal: | Journal of Consumer Policy
2008 : DEC, VOL 31:4 p. 473-487 |
| Index terms: | consumer protection law electronic commerce advertising microcomputers USA consumers |
| Freeterms: | data protection |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The study discusses the issue whether and when the individual should start to comply with consumer protection laws. The study is emerged from a larger research project on how computers and the Internet change consumer protection. The study is based on four examples of US legal rules which all violated by consumers-as-producers: (1) consumer privacy legislation; (2) advertising substantiation; (3) spam e-mails and (4) political blogging. The common theme among these recommendations is to describe the sort of harm that existing consumer protection law seeks to reduce |
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