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In this paper, we investigate the implications of the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) on the design of an IoT healthcare system. On 25th May 2018, the GDPR has become mandatory within the European Union and hence also for all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Florian Kammüller , Oladapo O. Ogunyanwo , Christian W. Probst

In recent years, our society is being plagued by unprecedented levels of privacy and security breaches. To rein in this trend, the European Union, in 2018, introduced a comprehensive legislation called the General Data Protection Regulation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Supreeth Shastri , Melissa Wasserman , Vijay Chidambaram

With the rapid increase in privacy violations in modern software development, regulatory frameworks such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been established to enforce strict data protection practices. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tharaka Wijesundara , Mathew Warren , Nalin Arachchilage

Transparency - the provision of information about what personal data is collected for which purposes, how long it is stored, or to which parties it is transferred - is one of the core privacy principles underlying regulations such as the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Elias Grünewald , Paul Wille , Frank Pallas , Maria C. Borges , Max-R. Ulbricht

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) remains the gold standard in privacy and security regulation. We investigate how the cost and effort required to implement GDPR is viewed by workers who have also experienced the regulations'…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Gerard Buckley , Tristan Caulfield , Ingolf Becker

The recent approval of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes new data protection requirements on data controllers and processors with respect to the processing of European Union (EU) residents' data. These requirements…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Ricardo Neisse , Gary Steri , Igor Nai-Fovino

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brings new challenges for companies who must ensure they have an appropriate legal basis for processing personal data and must provide transparency with respect to personal data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Sabrina Kirrane , Javier D. Fernández , Piero Bonatti , Uros Milosevic , Axel Polleres , Rigo Wenning

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018 and is designed to safeguard EU citizens' data privacy. The benefits of the regulation to consumers' rights and to regulators' powers are well known. The benefits to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Gerard Buckley , Tristan Caulfield , Ingolf Becker

After one year since the entry into force of the GDPR, all web sites and data controllers have updated their procedures to store users' data. The GDPR does not only cover how and what data should be saved by the service providers, but it…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Luca Bufalieri , Massimo La Morgia , Alessandro Mei , Julinda Stefa

Privacy is a key challenge for continued digitalization of health. The forthcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is transforming this challenge into regulatory directives. User consent provisioning and coordinating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Xiang Su , Jarkko Hyysalo , Mika Rautiainen , Jukka Riekki , Jaakko Sauvola , Altti Ilari Maarala , Harri Honko

Modern privacy regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), address privacy in software systems in a technologically agnostic way by mentioning general "technical measures" for data privacy compliance rather than…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Oleksandra Klymenko , Oleksandr Kosenkov , Stephen Meisenbacher , Parisa Elahidoost , Daniel Mendez , Florian Matthes

Testing and experimentation are crucial for promoting innovation and building systems that can evolve to meet high levels of service quality. IoT data that belong to users and from which their personal information can be inferred are…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Rachit Agarwal , Tarek Elsaleh , Elias Tragos

This article discusses the troubled relationship between contemporary advertising technology (adtech) systems, in particular systems of real-time bidding (RTB, also known as programmatic advertising) underpinning much behavioral targeting…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Michael Veale , Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

Implementing privacy by design (PbD) according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is met with a growing number of requirements engineering (RE) approaches. However, the question of which RE method for PbD fits best the goals…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Oleksandr Kosenkov , Ehsan Zabardast , Jannik Fischbach , Tony Gorschek , Daniel Mendez

[Context and motivation]: Understanding and interpreting regulatory norms and inferring software requirements from them is a critical step towards regulatory compliance, a matter of significant importance in various industrial sectors.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Parisa Elahidoost , Daniel Mendez , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Jannik Fischbach , Christian Feiler , Jonathan Streit

The data revolution continues to transform every sector of science, industry and government. Due to the incredible impact of data-driven technology on society, we are becoming increasingly aware of the imperative to use data and algorithms…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Serge Abiteboul , Julia Stoyanovich

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities, elevating the critical importance of LLM safety. However, existing safety methods rely on ad-hoc taxonomy and lack a rigorous, systematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Wenbin Hu , Huihao Jing , Haochen Shi , Haoran Li , Yangqiu Song

Technological advances in information sharing have raised concerns about data protection. Privacy policies contain privacy-related requirements about how the personal data of individuals will be handled by an organization or a software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Orlando Amaral , Sallam Abualhaija , Damiano Torre , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Lionel C. Briand

The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in various fields requires solid concepts to ensure compliance with upcoming legislation. This paper systematically examines the compliance of AI systems with relevant…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Julius Schöning , Niklas Kruse

Major scandals in corporate history have urged the need for regulatory compliance, where organizations need to ensure that their controls (processes) comply with relevant laws, regulations, and policies. However, keeping track of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Ilias Chalkidis , Manos Fergadiotis , Nikolaos Manginas , Eva Katakalou , Prodromos Malakasiotis