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As Mixed Reality (MR) devices become increasingly popular across industries, they raise significant privacy and ethical concerns due to their capacity to collect extensive data on users and their environments. This paper highlights the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Marvin Strauss , Viktorija Paneva , Florian Alt , Stefan Schneegass

Access to privacy-sensitive information on Android is a growing concern in the mobile community. Albeit Google Play recently introduced some privacy guidelines, it is still an open problem to soundly verify whether apps actually comply with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Luca Verderame , Davide Caputo , Andrea Romdhana , Alessio Merlo

While web agents gained popularity by automating web interactions, their requirement for interface access introduces significant privacy risks that are understudied, particularly from users' perspective. Through a formative study (N=15), we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shuning Zhang , Yutong Jiang , Rongjun Ma , Yuting Yang , Mingyao Xu , Zhixin Huang , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

Privacy policy documents are often lengthy, complex, and difficult for non-expert users to interpret, leading to a lack of transparency regarding the collection, processing, and sharing of personal data. As concerns over online privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Vijayalakshmi Ramasamy , Seth Barrett , Gokila Dorai , Jessica Zumbach

Vast amounts of information of all types are collected daily about people by governments, corporations and individuals. The information is collected when users register to or use on-line applications, receive health related services, use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Eyal Nussbaum , Michael Segal

Users share a vast amount of data while using web and mobile applications. Most service providers such as email and social media providers provide users with privacy controls, which aim to give users the means to control what, how, when,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Eman Alashwali

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

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

The increasing popularity of social media has attracted a huge number of people to participate in numerous activities on a daily basis. This results in tremendous amounts of rich user-generated data. This data provides opportunities for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Ghazaleh Beigi , Huan Liu

Privacy is important for all individuals in everyday life. With emerging technologies, smartphones with AR, various social networking applications and artificial intelligence driven modes of surveillance, they tend to intrude privacy. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Priyam Rajkhowa , Pradipta Biswas

As technology and technology companies have grown in power, ubiquity, and societal influence, some companies -- and notably some mobile apps -- have come to be perceived as privacy threats. Prior work has considered how various factors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jenny Tang , Hannah Shoemaker , Leah Teffera , Eleanor Birrell , Ada Lerner

It is well-known that most users do not read privacy policies, but almost all users tick the box to agree with them. In this paper, we analyze the 25-year history of privacy policies using methods from transparency research, machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Isabel Wagner

This systematic literature review investigates perceptions, concerns, and expectations of young digital citizens regarding privacy in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, focusing on social media platforms, educational technology, gaming…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Ankur Barthwal , Molly Campbell , Austin Shouli , Saad Syed , Sandhya Joshi , Julita Vassileva

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

Online Social Networking Sites attracted a massive number of users over the past decade but also raised privacy concerns with the amount of personal information disclosed. Studies have shown that 25% of the users are not aware of privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Roba Darwish , Kambiz Ghazinour

The lack of user experience standards in regulations for data privacy and data portability in the health sector increases the cost of leaving a network provider while not protecting the patient's privacy, directly impacting people's health.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yasodara Cordova

Automated analysis of privacy policies has proved a fruitful research direction, with developments such as automated policy summarization, question answering systems, and compliance detection. Prior research has been limited to analysis of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Ryan Amos , Gunes Acar , Eli Lucherini , Mihir Kshirsagar , Arvind Narayanan , Jonathan Mayer

Nowadays, all major web browsers have a private browsing mode. However, the mode's benefits and limitations are not particularly understood. Through the use of survey studies, prior work has found that most users are either unaware of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ruba Abu-Salma , Benjamin Livshits

Broken access control is one of the most common security vulnerabilities in web applications. These vulnerabilities are the major cause of many data breach incidents, which result in privacy concern and revenue loss. However, preventing and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Li Zhong

On the modern web, trackers and advertisers frequently construct and monetize users' detailed behavioral profiles without consent. Despite various studies on web tracking mechanisms and advertisements, there has been no rigorous study…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Zahra Moti , Asuman Senol , Hamid Bostani , Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius , Veelasha Moonsamy , Arunesh Mathur , Gunes Acar