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The application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has significantly affected privacy requirements elicitation, modelling, and verification in Software Engineering (SE). One of the affected areas is requirements visualisation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Evangelia Vanezi , Georgia M. Kapitsaki , Anna Philippou

Policymakers worldwide draft privacy laws that require trading-off between safeguarding consumer privacy and preventing economic loss to companies that use consumer data. However, little empirical knowledge exists as to how privacy laws…

General Economics · Economics 2021-10-20 Julia Schmitt , Klaus M. Miller , Bernd Skiera

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018. Its privacy regulations apply to any service and company collecting or processing personal data in Europe. Many companies had to adjust their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Martin Degeling , Christine Utz , Christopher Lentzsch , Henry Hosseini , Florian Schaub , Thorsten Holz

Privacy regulations often necessitate a balance between safeguarding consumer privacy and preventing economic losses for firms that utilize consumer data. However, little empirical evidence exists on how such laws affect firm performance.…

General Economics · Economics 2024-11-19 Klaus M. Miller , Julia Schmitt , Bernd Skiera

The use of software applications is inevitable as they provide different services to users. The software applications collect, store users' data, and sometimes share with the third party, even without the user consent. One can argue that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Abdulrahman Alhazmi , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Privacy and data protection have become more and more important in recent years since an increasing number of enterprises and startups are harvesting personal data as a part of their business model. One central requirement of the GDPR is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Tamas Bisztray , Nils Gruschka

Powerful recognition algorithms are widely used in the Internet or important medical systems, which poses a serious threat to personal privacy. Although the law provides for diversity protection, e.g. The General Data Protection Regulation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hao Wang , Yu Bai , Guangmin Sun , Jie Liu

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

In the international development community, the term "digital public goods" is used to describe open-source digital products (e.g., software, datasets) that aim to address the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. DPGs are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Geetika Gopi , Aadyaa Maddi , Omkhar Arasaratnam , Giulia Fanti

This poster describes work on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in open-source software. Although open-source software is commonly integrated into regulated software, and thus must be engineered or adapted for compliance, we do…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Lucas Franke , Huayu Liang , Aaron Brantly , James C Davis , Chris Brown

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in May 2018, leads to important changes in this area: companies are now required to ask for users' consent before collecting and sharing personal data and by law…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Tobias Urban , Dennis Tatang , Martin Degeling , Thorsten Holz , Norbert Pohlmann

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are crucial for the success of digital healthcare, with a focus on putting consumers at the center of this transformation. However, the digitalization of healthcare records brings along security and privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Vinaytosh Mishra , Kishu Gupta , Deepika Saxena , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brings new challenges for companies who must ensure they have an appropriate legal basis for processing personal data and must provide transparency with respect to personal data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Sabrina Kirrane , Javier D. Fernández , Piero Bonatti , Uros Milosevic , Axel Polleres , Rigo Wenning

The EU GDPR is a landmark regulation that introduced several rights for individuals to obtain information and control how their personal data is being processed, as well as receive a copy of it. However, there are gaps in the effective use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Beatriz Esteves , Harshvardhan J. Pandit , Georg P. Krog , Paul Ryan

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was implemented in 2018 to strengthen and harmonize the data protection of individuals within the European Union. One key aspect is Article 15, which gives individuals the right to access their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Daniela Pöhn , Niklas Mörsdorf , Wolfgang Hommel

As a mathematically rigorous framework that has amassed a rich theoretical literature, differential privacy is considered by many experts to be the gold standard for privacy-preserving data analysis. Others argue that while differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Rachel Cummings , Jayshree Sarathy

Today, web-based companies use user data to provide and enhance services to users, both individually and collectively. Some also analyze user data for other purposes, for example to select advertisements or price offers for users. Some even…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Eric Bax , John Donald , Melissa Gerber , Lisa Giaffo , Tanisha Sharma , Nikki Thompson , Kimberly Williams

Differential privacy is the gold standard for statistical data release. Used by governments, companies, and academics, its mathematically rigorous guarantees and worst-case assumptions on the strength and knowledge of attackers make it a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Kareem Amin , Alex Kulesza , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Big data applications offer smart solutions to many urgent societal challenges, such as health care, traffic coordination, energy management, etc. The basic premise for these applications is "the more data the better". The focus often lies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Thomas Plagemann , Vera Goebel , Matthias Hollick , Boris Koldehofe

In the realm of data protection, a striking disconnect prevails between traditional domains of doctrinal, legal, theoretical, and policy-based inquiries and a burgeoning body of empirical evidence. Much of the scholarly and regulatory…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Wenlong Li , Zihao Li , Wenkai Li , Yueming Zhang , Aolan Li