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This article sheds light on legal implications and challenges surrounding emotion data processing within the EU's legal framework. Despite the sensitive nature of emotion data, the GDPR does not categorize it as special data, resulting in a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Andreas Hauselmann , Alan M. Sears , Lex Zard , Eduard Fosch-Villaronga

Personal data has emerged as a highly valuable yet sensitive asset that drives business decisions, enables targeted advertising, and generates substantial revenue for companies, while simultaneously facilitating invasive monitoring of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shantanu Sharma , Ethan Myers , Lorenzo De Carli , Ritwik Banerjee , Indrakshi Ray

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become a touchstone model for modern privacy law, in part because it empowers consumers with unprecedented control over the use of their personal information. However, this same power may be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 James Pavur , Casey Knerr

In the light of modern technological advances, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is relied upon to enhance performance, increase efficiency, and maximize gains. For Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), it can prove valuable in optimizing evidence…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yasmine Ezzeddine , Petra Saskia Bayerl , Helen Gibson

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is considered as the benchmark in the European Union (EU) for privacy and data protection standards. Since before its entry into force in 2018, substantial research has been conducted in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Orlando Amaral Cejas , Nicolas Sannier , Sallam Abualhaija , Marcello Ceci , Domenico Bianculli

The privacy community has a long track record of investigating emerging types of web tracking techniques. Recent work has focused on compliance of web trackers with new privacy laws such as Europe's GDPR and California's CCPA. Despite the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Shaoor Munir , Nurullah Demir , Qian Li , Konrad Kollnig , Zubair Shafiq

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enforced from 25th May 2018, aims to reform how organisations view and control the personal data of private EU citizens. The scope of GDPR is somewhat unprecedented: it regulates every…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Sean Sirur , Jason R. C. Nurse , Helena Webb

IEEE's 1012 Standard for independent software and hardware verification and validation (IV&V) is under attack in U.S. federal criminal court. As software spreads through the criminal legal system, scientists, engineers, and IEEE have an…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Marc Canellas

In today's digital society, issues related to digital privacy have become increasingly important. Issues such as data breaches result in misuse of data, financial loss, and cyberbullying, which leads to less user trust in digital services.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Mehmet Berk Cetin

In the digital age, e-commerce has transformed the way consumers shop, offering convenience and accessibility. Nevertheless, concerns about the privacy and security of personal information shared on these platforms have risen. In this work,…

We present a survey of tools used in the criminal justice system in the UK in three categories: data infrastructure, data analysis, and risk prediction. Many tools are currently in deployment, offering potential benefits, including improved…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Miri Zilka , Holli Sargeant , Adrian Weller

Safeguarding data from unauthorized exploitation is vital for privacy and security, especially in recent rampant research in security breach such as adversarial/membership attacks. To this end, \textit{unlearnable examples} (UEs) have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Wan Jiang , Yunfeng Diao , He Wang , Jianxin Sun , Meng Wang , Richang Hong

Technology has advanced dramatically in the previous several years. There are also cyber assaults. Cyberattacks pose a possible danger to information security and the general public. Since data practice and internet consumption rates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Naresh Kshetri , Vasudha , Denisa Hoxha

The paper gives a brief introduction about what BEC (Business Email Compromise) is and why we should be concerned about. In addition, it presents 2 examples, Ubiquity and Peebles Media Group, which have been chosen to analyse the phenomena…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Alessandro Ecclesie Agazzi

EU Directive 95/46/EC and the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation grant Europeans the right of access to data pertaining to them. Consumers can approach their service providers to obtain all personal data stored and processed…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Dominik Herrmann , Jens Lindemann

While there is increasing global attention to data privacy, most of their current theoretical understanding is based on research conducted in a few countries. Prior work argues that people's cultural backgrounds might shape their privacy…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Felipe González-Pizarro , Andrea Figueroa , Claudia López , Cecilia Aragon

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, appraises the European Commission's proposal for an ePrivacy Regulation. The study…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius , Joris van Hoboken , Ronan Fahy , Kristina Irion , Max Rozendaal

Privacy is an increasingly feeble constituent of the present datafied world and apparently the reason for that is clear: powerful actors worked to invade everyone's privacy for commercial and surveillance purposes. The existence of those…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Marco Cremonini

This paper investigates the relationship between law and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). While there is much discussion about the AI Act, for which the trilogue of the European Parliament, Council and Commission recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Benjamin Fresz , Elena Dubovitskaya , Danilo Brajovic , Marco Huber , Christian Horz

Open source is a driving force behind scientific advancement.However, this openness is also a double-edged sword, with the inherent risk that innovative technologies can be misused for purposes harmful to society. What is the likelihood…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Yeeun Kim , Hyunseo Shin , Eunkyung Choi , Hongseok Oh , Hyunjun Kim , Wonseok Hwang