Cookie disclaimers are these days an indispensable part of surfing and working on the
Internet. In this work, we report on examining and classifying the cookie disclaimers on the …

Background: Governments worldwide are considering data privacy regulations. These laws,
such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), require software …

The rising diffusion of information systems (IS) throughout society poses an increasingly
serious threat to privacy as a social value. One approach to alleviating this threat is to …

While cookie disclaimers on websites have been proposed to ensure that users make
informed decisions regarding consenting to data collection via cookies, such informed …

Today most websites in the EU present users with a consent banner asking about the use of
cookies or other tracking technologies. Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) need to ensure …

The privacy paradox describes a scenario in which individuals express privacy concerns but
still share private data online. We explore how the paradox can be understood following the …

Legal frameworks rely on users to make an informed decision about data collection, eg, by
accepting or declining the use of tracking technologies. In practice, however, users hardly …

Most websites offer their content for free, though this gratuity often comes with a counterpart:
personal data is collected to finance these websites by resorting, mostly, to tracking and thus …

Dark patterns in cookie disclaimers are factors that are used to lead users to accept more
cookies than needed and more than they are aware of. The contributions of this paper are …

Data collection purposes and their descriptions are presented on almost all privacy notices
under the GDPR, yet there is a lack of research focusing on how effective they are at …