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Privacy requirements are increasingly growing in importance as new privacy regulations are enacted. To adequately manage privacy requirements, organizations not only need to comply with privacy regulations, but also consider user privacy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Ze Shi Li , Manish Sihag , Nowshin Nawar Arony , Joao Bezerra Junior , Thanh Phan , Neil Ernst , Daniela Damian

Over the past half-century, technology has evolved beyond our wildest dreams. However, while the benefits of technological growth are undeniable, the nascent Internet did not anticipate the online threats we routinely encounter and the…

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

This paper explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of major…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Elena Maris , Timothy Libert , Jennifer Henrichsen

Data providers such as government statistical agencies perform a balancing act: maximising information published to inform decision-making and research, while simultaneously protecting privacy. The emergence of identified administrative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Felix Ritchie , Jim Smith

In collaborative learning, clients keep their data private and communicate only the computed gradients of the deep neural network being trained on their local data. Several recent attacks show that one can still extract private information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Fan Mo , Anastasia Borovykh , Mohammad Malekzadeh , Soteris Demetriou , Deniz Gündüz , Hamed Haddadi

The rapid integration of digital technology into daily life has prompted sustained concern regarding its impact on human cognition. This integrative review synthesizes documented risks and negative associations across more than 500…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Urška Žnidarič , Erik Štrumbelj , Octavian Machidon

Online tracking is a primary concern for Internet users, yet previous research has not found a clear link between the cognitive understanding of tracking and protective actions. We postulate that protective behaviour follows affective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Kovila P. L. Coopamootoo , Maryam Mehrnezhad , Ehsan Toreini

Nowadays, the users' browsing activity on the Internet is not completely private due to many entities that collect and use such data, either for legitimate or illegal goals. The implications are serious, from a person who exposes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Luca Vassio , Hassan Metwalley , Danilo Giordano

With the development of Internet technology, the issue of privacy leakage has attracted more and more attention from the public. In our daily life, mobile phone applications and identity documents that we use may bring the risk of privacy…

General Economics · Economics 2022-11-28 Zhiheng Yi , Xiaoli Chen

Opinion polls suggest that the public value their privacy, with majorities calling for greater control of their data. However, individuals continue to use online services which place their personal information at risk, comprising a Privacy…

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

Although mobile devices benefit users in their daily lives in numerous ways, they also raise several privacy concerns. For instance, they can reveal sensitive information that can be inferred from location data. This location data is shared…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Antoine Boutet , Victor Morel

The problem of online privacy is often reduced to individual decisions to hide or reveal personal information in online social networks (OSNs). However, with the increasing use of OSNs, it becomes more important to understand the role of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Emre Sarigol , David Garcia , Frank Schweitzer

The emergence of online social networks and the growing popularity of digital communication has resulted in an increasingly amount of information about individuals available on the Internet. Social network users are given the freedom to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Anna Squicciarini , Christopher Griffin

Cybersecurity incidents such as data breaches have become increasingly common, affecting millions of users and organizations worldwide. The complexity of cybersecurity threats challenges the effectiveness of existing security communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Carolina Carreira , Alexandra Mendes , João F. Ferreira , Nicolas Christin

The eruption of big data with the increasing collection and processing of vast volumes and variety of data have led to breakthrough discoveries and innovation in science, engineering, medicine, commerce, criminal justice, and national…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Fang Liu

Recent work~\cite{Liu2016} has shown that dependencies between items in a dataset can lead to privacy leaks. We extend this concept to privacy-preserving transformations, considering a broader set of dependencies captured by correlation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Kenneth Odoh

In the current technology environment, users are often in a vulnerable position when it comes to protecting their privacy. Previous efforts to promote privacy protection have largely focused on top-down approaches such as regulation and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Varun Shiri , Maggie Xiong , Jin L. C. Guo , Jinghui Cheng

Wearable devices, or "wearables," bring great benefits but also potential risks that could expose users' activities with- out their awareness or consent. In this paper, we report findings from the first large-scale survey conducted to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Linda Lee , Serge Egelman , Joong Hwa Lee , David Wagner

In pseudonymous online fora like Reddit, the benefits of self-disclosure are often apparent to users (e.g., I can vent about my in-laws to understanding strangers), but the privacy risks are more abstract (e.g., will my partner be able to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Isadora Krsek , Anubha Kabra , Yao Dou , Tarek Naous , Laura A. Dabbish , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu , Sauvik Das

What do pickles and trampolines have in common? In this paper we show that while purchases for these products may seem innocuous, they risk revealing clues about customers' personal attributes - in this case, their race. As online retail…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Alex Berke , Kent Larson , Sandy Pentland , Dana Calacci