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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

Data Minimization (DM) is a privacy practice that requires minimizing the use of user data in software systems. However, continuous privacy incidents that compromise user data suggest that the requirements of DM are not adequately…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Awanthika Senarath , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Applications like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have become an indispensable part of the corporate digital infrastructure. These systems store sensitive data about customers, suppliers, and employees, and thus companies have to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alicia Pang , Katsiaryna Labunets , Olga Gadyatskaya

In Europe and indeed worldwide, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides protection to individuals regarding their personal data in the face of new technological developments. GDPR is widely viewed as the benchmark for data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Damiano Torre , Mauricio Alferez , Ghanem Soltana , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Lionel Briand

In our data-centric world, most services rely on collecting and using personal data. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aims to enhance individuals' control over their data, but its practical impact is not well understood.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Alex Bowyer , Jack Holt , Josephine Go Jefferies , Rob Wilson , David Kirk , Jan David Smeddinck

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 GDPR grants data subjects certain rights, like the right to access their data from companies, but in practice multiple problems exist with exercising these rights such as unknown data holders or interpreting the received data. Small and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Erik Klinger , Alex Wiesmaier , Andreas Heinemann

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

To investigate the level of support and awareness developers possess for dealing with sensitive data in the metaverse, we surveyed developers, consulted legal frameworks, and analyzed API documentation in the metaverse. Our preliminary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Argianto Rahartomo , Leonel Merino , Mohammad Ghafari , Yoshiki Ohshima

Context: Consistent requirements and system specifications are essential for the compliance of software systems towards the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Both artefacts need to be grounded in the original text and conjointly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Oleksandr Kosenkov , Ehsan Zabardast , Davide Fucci , Daniel Mendez , Michael Unterkalmsteiner

Specifying legal requirements for software systems to ensure their compliance with the applicable regulations is a major concern to requirements engineering (RE). Personal data which is collected by an organization is often shared with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Muhammad Ilyas Azeem , Sallam Abualhaija

Data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), usually requires a privacy policy before data can be collected from individuals. We analysed 15,145 privacy policies from 26,910 mobile apps in May 2019 (about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Konrad Kollnig

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires an organisation that suffers a data breach to notify the competent Data Protection Authority. The organisation must also inform the relevant individuals, when a data breach threatens…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius , Hadi Asghari , Noël Bangma , Jaap-Henk Hoepman

With the arrival of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), several companies are making significant changes to their systems to achieve compliance. The changes range from modifying privacy policies to redesigning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Jayashree Mohan , Melissa Wasserman , Vijay Chidambaram

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

Security and privacy are often neglected in software development, and rarely a priority for developers. This insight is commonly based on research conducted by researchers and on developer populations living and working in the United…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Dilara Keküllüoğlu , Yasemin Acar

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

Organizations struggle to comply with legal requirements as well as customers calls for better data protection. On the implementation level, incorporation of privacy protections in products and services depends on the commitment of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Kathrin Bednar , Sarah Spiekermann , Marc Langheinrich

Privacy Policy under GDPR law helps users understand how software developers handle their personal data. GDPR privacy education must be considered a vital aspect of combating privacy threats. In this paper, we present the design and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Abdulrahman Hassan Alhazmi , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Privacy preservation and the protection of speech data is in high demand, not least as a result of recent regulation, e.g. the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU. While there has been a period with which to prepare for its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Andreas Nautsch , Catherine Jasserand , Els Kindt , Massimiliano Todisco , Isabel Trancoso , Nicholas Evans