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Every time a user performs a transaction over the Internet, a wealth of personal information is revealed, either voluntarily or involuntarily. This causes serious breach of privacy for the user, in particular, if the personally identifying information is misused by the different players involved in the transaction. Ideally, therefore, the user would like to have a considerable degree of control over what personal information to reveal and to whom. In this paper we propose a new e-commerce protocol that helps the user protect her privacy while purchasing products over the Internet. The proposed scheme provides a flexible and powerful approach for the secure handling of private data and offers the user considerable control over how she wishes to disseminate her personal data.
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Ray, I., Geisterfer, M. (2004). Towards a Privacy Preserving e-Commerce Protocol. In: Bauknecht, K., Bichler, M., Pröll, B. (eds) E-Commerce and Web Technologies. EC-Web 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30077-9_16
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