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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

End user privacy is a critical concern for all organizations that collect, process and store user data as a part of their business. Privacy concerned users, regulatory bodies and privacy experts continuously demand organizations provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Awanthika Rasanjalee Senarath , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

The recent advancements in computing systems and wireless communications have made healthcare systems more efficient than before. Modern healthcare devices can monitor and manage different health conditions of the patients automatically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-18 AKM Iqridar Newaz , Amit Kumar Sikder , Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman , A. Selcuk Uluagac

Data aggregators collect large amount of information about individual users and create detailed online behavioral profiles of individuals. Behavioral profiles benefit users by improving products and services. However, they have also raised…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Ashwini Rao , Florian Schaub , Norman Sadeh

The new information and communication technology providers collect increasing amounts of personal data, a lot of which is user generated. Unless use policies are privacy-friendly, this leaves users vulnerable to privacy risks such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Jana Korunovska , Bernadette Kamleitner , Sarah Spiekermann

Website owners make conscious and unconscious decisions that affect their users, potentially exposing them to privacy and security risks in the process. In this paper we introduce PrivacyScore, an automated website scanning portal that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Max Maass , Pascal Wichmann , Henning Pridöhl , Dominik Herrmann

Software systems are ubiquitous, and their use is ingrained in our everyday lives. They enable us to get in touch with people quickly and easily, support us in gathering information, and help us perform our daily tasks. In return, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Wasja Brunotte , Alexander Specht , Larissa Chazette , Kurt Schneider

Female Health Applications (FHA), a growing segment of FemTech, aim to provide affordable and accessible healthcare solutions for women globally. These applications gather and monitor health and reproductive data from millions of users.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Muhammad Hassan , Mahnoor Jameel , Tian Wang , Masooda Bashir

As the adoption of smart devices continues to permeate all aspects of our lives, user privacy concerns have become more pertinent than ever. Privacy policies outline the data handling practices of these devices. Prior work in the domains of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Aamir Hamid , Hemanth Reddy Samidi , Tim Finin , Primal Pappachan , Roberto Yus

The rapid advances in fitness wearable devices are redefining privacy around interactions. Fitness wearables devices record a considerable amount of sensitive and private details about exercise, blood oxygen level, and heart rate. Privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-03 May Alhajri , Ahmad Salehi Shahraki , Carsten Rudolph

Daily, massive volume of data are produced due to the internet of things' rapid development, which has now permeated the healthcare industry. Recent advances in data mining have spawned a new field of a study dubbed privacy-preserving data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Robinson Onyemechi Oturugbum

One of the major views of privacy associates privacy with the control over information. This gives rise to the question how controllable privacy actually is. In this paper, we adapt certain formal methods of control theory and investigate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yefim Shulman , Joachim Meyer

This paper presents a systematic evaluation of the privacy behaviors and attributes of eight recent, popular browser agents. Browser agents are software that automate Web browsing using large language models and ancillary tooling. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alisha Ukani , Hamed Haddadi , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Peter Snyder

Privacy is a major good for users of personalized services such as recommender systems. When applied to the field of health informatics, privacy concerns of users may be amplified, but the possible utility of such services is also high.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-14 André Calero Valdez , Martina Ziefle

The management of data and digital assets poses various challenges, including the need to adhere to legal requirements with respect to personal data protection and copyright. Usage control technologies could be used by software platform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Ines Akaichi , Sabrina Kirrane

Users are often overwhelmed by privacy decisions to manage their personal data, which can happen on the web, in mobile, and in IoT environments. These decisions can take various forms -- such as decisions for setting privacy permissions or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Victor Morel , Simone Fischer-Hübner

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

To protect users' privacy, legislators have regulated the usage of tracking technologies, mandating the acquisition of users' consent before collecting data. Consequently, websites started showing more and more consent management modules --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Nikhil Jha , Martino Trevisan , Luca Vassio , Marco Mellia

Personal data cover multiple aspects of our daily life and activities, including health, finance, social, Internet, Etc. Personal data visualisations aim to improve the user experience when exploring these large amounts of personal data and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Yasmeen Anjeer Alshehhi , Mohamed Abdelrazek , Alessio Bonti

GitHub provides developers with a practical way to distribute source code and collaboratively work on common projects. To enhance account security and privacy, GitHub allows its users to manage access permissions, review audit logs, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Costanza Alfieri , Juri Di Rocco , Paola Inverardi , Phuong T. Nguyen