Background Social media tools have provided health researchers with the opportunity to
engage with communities and groups in a nonconventional manner to recruit participants for …

Because of increased technological complexities and multiple data-exploiting business
practices, it is hard for consumers to gain control over their own personal data. Therefore …

The increasing generation and collection of personal data has created a complex
ecosystem, often collaborative but sometimes combative, around companies and individuals …

Increasing numbers of people are concerned about their privacy. This is a worldwide trend,
which may be due to increased numbers of people who are active on social media and …

Increasing numbers of decisions about everyday life are made using algorithms. By
algorithms we mean predictive models (decision rules) captured from historical data using …

In this article we examine the effectiveness of consent in data protection legislation. We
argue that the current legal framework for consent, which has its basis in the idea of …

As learning analytics activity has increased, a variety of ethical implications and
considerations have emerged, though a significant research gap remains in explicitly …

The exponential growth of the internet and social media use in the recent past followed by a
widespread increase of the scale, scope and sharing of information has impacted greatly on …

The legal basis for processing personal data and some other types of Big Data is often the
informed consent of the data subject involved. Many data controllers, such as social network …

The e-commerce sector has experienced significant growth in the past two decades,
outpacing other economic sectors and contributing to sustainable consumption, increased …