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Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a pivotal approach for safeguarding individual privacy in data analysis, yet its practical adoption is often hindered by challenges in the implementation and communication of DP. This paper presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Onyinye Dibia , Prianka Bhattacharjee , Brad Stenger , Steven Baldasty , Mako Bates , Ivoline C. Ngong , Yuanyuan Feng , Joseph P. Near

Data privacy is a trending topic in the internet era. Given such importance, many challenges emerged in order to collect, manage, process, and publish data. In this sense, personal data have got attention, and many regulations emerged, such…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Paulo Henrique Alves , Isabella Z. Frajhof , Fernando A. Correia , Clarisse de Souza , Helio Lopes

The protection of personal data has become a central topic in software development, especially with the implementation of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in Brazil and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-25 André Menolli , Luiz Fernando Nunes , Thiago A. Coleti

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the first epidemic in human history in which digital contact-tracing has been deployed at a global scale. Tracking and quarantining all the contacts of individuals who test positive to a virus can help…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-26 Aleix Bassolas , Andrea Santoro , Sandro Sousa , Silvia Rognone , Vincenzo Nicosia

The ISO/IEC TS 27560:2023 Privacy technologies - Consent record information structure provides guidance for the creation and maintenance of records regarding consent as machine-readable information. It also provides guidance on the use of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Harshvardhan J. Pandit , Jan Lindquist , Georg P. Krog

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be as complex as ever, the collection and exchange of data in the light of fighting coronavirus poses a major challenge for privacy systems around the globe. The disease's size and magnitude is not…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Sajedul Talukder , Md. Iftekharul Islam Sakib , Zahidur Talukder

Modern, data-driven medical research requires the processing of sensitive health data on a large scale. However, this data is subject to special protection under the GDPR, which is why processing regularly raises data protection concerns in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Saskia Kaltenbrunner , Michael Schmidbauer

Since its implementation in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has prompted businesses to revisit and revise their data handling practices to ensure compliance. The privacy policy, which serves as the primary means of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Lu Zhang , Nabil Moukafih , Hamad Alamri , Gregory Epiphaniou , Carsten Maple

In recent years, major privacy laws like the GDPR have brought about positive changes. However, challenges remain in enforcing the laws, particularly due to under-resourced regulators facing a large number of potential privacy-violating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Tao Jing , Yao Li , Jingzhou Ye , Jie Wang , Xueqiang Wang

Contact tracing has existed in various forms for a very long time. With the rise of COVID-19, the concept has become increasingly important to help slow the spread of the virus. One approach to modernizing contact tracing is to introduce…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Lucas Draper

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, there has been increased interest in the use of digital contact tracing as a means of stopping chains of viral transmission, provoking alarm from privacy advocates. Concerning the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Benjamin Levy , Matthew Stewart

Many countries are currently gearing up to use smart-phone apps to perform contact tracing as part of the effort to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and prevent resurgences of the disease after the initial outbreak. With the announcement of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Daniel Tang

As e-commerce continues to expand, the urgency for stronger privacy and security measures becomes increasingly critical, particularly on platforms frequented by younger users who are often less aware of potential risks. In our analysis of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Urvashi Kishnani , Sanchari Das

Context: Privacy legislation has impacted the way software systems are developed, prompting practitioners to update their implementations. Specifically, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Georgia M. Kapitsaki , Maria Papoutsoglou , Christoph Treude , Ioanna Theophilou

Software applications are designed to assist users in conducting a wide range of tasks or interactions. They have become prevalent and play an integral part in people's lives in this digital era. To use those software applications, users…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Pattaraporn Sangaroonsilp , Hoa Khanh Dam , Omar Haggag , John Grundy

Technological advancements allow biometric applications to be more omnipresent than in any other time before. This paper argues that in the current EU data protection regulation, classification applications using biometric data receive less…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Tamas Bisztray , Nils Gruschka , Thirimachos Bourlai , Lothar Fritsch

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a severe global pandemic that has claimed millions of lives and continues to overwhelm public health systems in many countries. The spread of COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the human…

Many people around the world are worried about using or even downloading COVID-19 contact tracing mobile apps. The main reported concerns are centered around privacy and ethical issues. At the same time, people are voluntarily using Social…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Omar Haggag , Sherif Haggag , John Grundy , Mohamed Abdelrazek

Privacy Policies are the legal documents that describe the practices that an organization or company has adopted in the handling of the personal data of its users. But as policies are a legal document, they are often written in extensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Ayesha Qamar , Tehreem Javed , Mirza Omer Beg

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a unique challenge for the world to find solutions, ranging from vaccines to ICT solutions to slow down the virus spreading. Due to the highly contagious nature of the virus, social distancing is one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Qiang Tang