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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The privacy policy landscape after the GDPR

T Linden, R Khandelwal, H Harkous… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the most demanding and
comprehensive privacy regulations of all time. A year after it went into effect, we study its …

Regulating privacy online: An economic evaluation of the GDPR

SG Goldberg, GA Johnson, SK Shriver - American Economic Journal …, 2024 - aeaweb.org
Modern websites rely on personal data to design better content and to market themselves.
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was intended to make …

[PDF][PDF] Regulating privacy online: The early impact of the GDPR on European web traffic & e-commerce outcomes

S Goldberg, G Johnson, S Shriver - Available at SSRN, 2019 - files.lbr.cloud
Abstract In May 2018, the European Union began enforcing the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), which endowed EU citizens with new personal data rights and imposed …

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 …

Are cookie banners indeed compliant with the law? Deciphering EU legal requirements on consent and technical means to verify compliance of cookie banners

C Santos, N Bielova, C Matte - arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.07144, 2019 - arxiv.org
In this work, we analyze the legal requirements on how cookie banners are supposed to be
implemented to be fully compliant with the e-Privacy Directive and the General Data …

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 …