Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy
Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
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Call for proposals
FP7-SSH-2009-A
Main participants
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Contest type
RP - Co-financing of EC programme
Contract ID
1090/2011-321
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy
Annotation in Czech
One of the key changes in societal trends and lifestyles witnessed over the past few years has been the move on-line of many consumers and the way they have become increasingly sophisticated in their media consumption habits. Have these recent changes toconsumer and commercial practices developed in such a way that consumers are (in)voluntarily signing away their fundamental right to privacy? This project (CONSENT) seeks to examine how consumer behaviour, and commercial practices are changing the roleof consent in the processing of personal data. While consumer consent is a fundamental value on which the European market economy is based, the way consumer consent is obtained is questionable in popular user-generative/user-generated (UGC) online services (including sites like MySpace, YouTube and Facebook), whose commercial success depends to a large extent on the disclosure by their users of substantial amounts of personal data. There is an urgent need to study and analyse the changes in con
Scientific branches
R&D category
AP - Applied research
CEP classification - main branch
AG - Legal sciences
CEP - secondary branch
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CEP - another secondary branch
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OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
50501 - Law<br>50502 - Criminology, penology
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)
Project results evaluation
Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
May 1, 2010
Realization period - end
Apr 30, 2013
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Mar 20, 2013
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP14-MSM-7E-U/01:1
Data delivery date
Jun 30, 2014
Finance
Total approved costs
214 thou. CZK
Public financial support
214 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK