Can I opt out yet? GDPR and the global illusion of cookie control

I Sanchez-Rola, M Dell'Amico, P Kotzias… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in effect since May
2018, enforces strict limitations on handling users' personal data, hence impacting their …

User tracking in the post-cookie era: How websites bypass gdpr consent to track users

E Papadogiannakis, P Papadopoulos… - Proceedings of the web …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
During the past few years, mostly as a result of the GDPR and the CCPA, websites have
started to present users with cookie consent banners. These banners are web forms where …

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 …

We value your privacy... now take some cookies: Measuring the GDPR's impact on web privacy

M Degeling, C Utz, C Lentzsch, H Hosseini… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
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 …

Automating cookie consent and {GDPR} violation detection

D Bollinger, K Kubicek, C Cotrini, D Basin - 31st USENIX Security …, 2022 - usenix.org
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires websites to
inform users about personal data collection and request consent for cookies. Yet the majority …

4 years of EU cookie law: Results and lessons learned

M Trevisan, S Traverso, E Bassi, M Mellia - Proceedings on Privacy …, 2019 - arts.units.it
Personalized advertisement has changed the web. It lets websites monetize the content they
offer. The downside is the continuous collection of personal information with significant …

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 …

Cookie swap party: Abusing first-party cookies for web tracking

Q Chen, P Ilia, M Polychronakis… - Proceedings of the Web …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
As a step towards protecting user privacy, most web browsers perform some form of third-
party HTTP cookie blocking or periodic deletion by default, while users typically have the …

A study on subject data access in online advertising after the GDPR

T Urban, D Tatang, M Degeling, T Holz… - … Workshops, DPM 2019 …, 2019 - Springer
Online tracking has mostly been studied by passively measuring the presence of tracking
services on websites (i) without knowing what data these services collect,(ii) the reasons for …