Cookie banners and privacy policies: Measuring the impact of the GDPR on the web

M Kretschmer, J Pennekamp, K Wehrle - ACM Transactions on the Web …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is in effect since May of 2018. As one of the
most comprehensive pieces of legislation concerning privacy, it sparked a lot of discussion …

Measuring the emergence of consent management on the web

M Hils, DW Woods, R Böhme - Proceedings of the ACM Internet …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Privacy laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California
Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have pushed internet firms processing personal data to …

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Internet latency: A large-scale study

M Candela, V Luconi, A Vecchio - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the way of living of billions of people in a
very short time frame. In this paper, we evaluate the impact on the Internet latency caused by …

Cookie synchronization: Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask

P Papadopoulos, N Kourtellis, E Markatos - The World Wide Web …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
User data is the primary input of digital advertising, fueling the free Internet as we know it. As
a result, web companies invest a lot in elaborate tracking mechanisms to acquire user data …

A haystack full of needles: Scalable detection of iot devices in the wild

SJ Saidi, AM Mandalari, R Kolcun, H Haddadi… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are extremely popular, providing users with rich
and diverse functionalities, from voice assistants to home appliances. These functionalities …

Before and after gdpr: The changes in third party presence at public and private european websites

J Sørensen, S Kosta - The World Wide Web Conference, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The commencement of EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has led to massive
compliance and consent activities on websites. But did the new regulation result in fewer …

Beyond the front page: Measuring third party dynamics in the field

T Urban, M Degeling, T Holz, N Pohlmann - Proceedings of the web …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In the modern Web, service providers often rely heavily on third parties to run their services.
For example, they make use of ad networks to finance their services, externally hosted …

Measuring cookies and web privacy in a post-gdpr world

A Dabrowski, G Merzdovnik, J Ullrich… - Passive and Active …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract In response, the European Union has adopted the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), a legislative framework for data protection empowering individuals to …

Characterising third party cookie usage in the EU after GDPR

X Hu, N Sastry - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The recently introduced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires that when
obtaining information online that could be used to identify individuals, their consents must be …

Exploring the cookieverse: A multi-perspective analysis of web cookies

A Rasaii, S Singh, D Gosain, O Gasser - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Web cookies have been the subject of many research studies over the last few years.
However, most existing research does not consider multiple crucial perspectives that can …