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We need to rethink our approach to defend privacy on the internet. Currently, policymakers focus heavily on the idea of informed consent as a means to defend privacy. For instance, in many countries the law requires firms to obtain an…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

News recommendation and personalization is not a solved problem. People are growing concerned of their data being collected in excess in the name of personalization and the usage of it for purposes other than the ones they would think…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Reshma Narayanan Kutty , Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez , Igor Brigadir , Ernesto Diaz-Aviles

Modern cars technologies are evolving quickly. They collect a variety of personal data and treat it on behalf of the car manufacturer to improve the drivers' experience. The precise terms of such a treatment are stated within the privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Giampaolo Bella , Pietro Biondi , Marco De Vincenzi , Giuseppe Tudisco

Privacy policies are legal documents that describe how a website will collect, use, and distribute a user's data. Unfortunately, such documents are often overly complicated and filled with legal jargon; making it difficult for users to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zachary Lindner

Open data are held to contribute to a wide variety of social and political goals, including strengthening transparency, public participation and democratic accountability, promoting economic growth and innovation, and enabling greater…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius , Jonathan Gray , Mireille van Eechoud

In this report, we present an approach to enhance informed consent for the processing of personal data. The approach relies on a privacy policy language used to express, compare and analyze privacy policies. We describe a tool that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Raúl Pardo , Daniel Le Métayer

Defining privacy and related notions such as Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is a central notion in computer science and other fields. The theoretical, technological, and application aspects of PII require a framework that provides…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sabah S. Al-Fedaghi

Despite having growing awareness and concerns about privacy, technology users are often insufficiently informed of the data practices of various digital products to protect themselves. Privacy policies and privacy labels, as two…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Varun Shiri , Charles Liu , Keyu Yao , Jin L. C. Guo , Jinghui Cheng

This paper delves into the intricate landscape of privacy notions, specifically honed in on the local setting. Central to our discussion is the juxtaposition of point-wise protection and average-case protection, offering a comparative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nan Wang , Likun Qin , Tianshuo Qiu

In this paper, we discuss an important aspect of speech privacy: protecting spoken content. New capabilities from the field of machine learning provide a unique and timely opportunity to revisit speech content protection. There are many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Jennifer Williams , Junichi Yamagishi , Paul-Gauthier Noe , Cassia Valentini Botinhao , Jean-Francois Bonastre

In this paper we define the notion of a privacy design strategy. These strategies help IT architects to support privacy by design early in the software development life cycle, during concept development and analysis. Using current data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Jaap-Henk Hoepman

Ensuring privacy of sensitive data is essential in many contexts, such as healthcare data, banks, e-commerce, wireless sensor networks, and social networks. It is common that different entities coordinate or want to rely on a third party to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana , George Athanasiou , Martin Jakobsson , Carlo Fischione , John S. Baras

As privacy issues have gained social salience, entrepreneurs have begun to offer privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) and the U.S. has begun to enact privacy legislation. But "privacy" is an ambiguous notion. In the liberal tradition, it…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David J. Phillips

Privacy is a well-understood concept in the physical world, with us all desiring some escape from the public gaze. However, while individuals might recognise locking doors as protecting privacy, they have difficulty practising equivalent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Meredydd Williams , Jason R. C. Nurse , Sadie Creese

We need to rethink our approach to defend privacy on the internet. Currently, policymakers focus heavily on the idea of informed consent as a means to defend privacy. For instance, in many countries the law requires firms to obtain an…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

Formal methods are, in principle, suited for supporting the recent paradigm of privacy by design, but no overview is available that summarizes which particular approaches have been investigated, for which application domains they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Sibylle Schupp

Privacy in speech and audio has many facets. A particularly under-developed area of privacy in this domain involves consideration for information related to content and context. Speech content can include words and their meaning or even…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Jennifer Williams , Karla Pizzi , Shuvayanti Das , Paul-Gauthier Noe

The massive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) as a network of interconnected entities [18], brings up new challenges in terms of privacy and security requirements to the traditional software engineering domain [4]. To protect the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Parvaneh Shayegh , Vijayanta Jain , Amin Rabinia , Sepideh Ghanavati

In this paper we argue that policies are an increasing concern for organizations that are operating a web site. Examples of policies that are relevant in the domain of the web address issues such as privacy of personal data, accessibility…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2008-07-31 Holger M. Kienle , Hausi A. Müller

LLMs driven products were increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, With a natural language based interaction style, people may potentially leak their personal private information. Thus, privacy policy and user agreement played an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Shuning Zhang , Haobin Xing , Xin Yi , Hewu Li