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 …

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 …

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 …

Cookies Lack Integrity:{Real-World} Implications

X Zheng, J Jiang, J Liang, H Duan, S Chen… - 24th USENIX Security …, 2015 - usenix.org
A cookie can contain a “secure” flag, indicating that it should be only sent over an HTTPS
connection. Yet there is no corresponding flag to indicate how a cookie was set: attackers …

RuleKeeper: GDPR-aware personal data compliance for web frameworks

M Ferreira, T Brito, JF Santos… - 2023 IEEE Symposium …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pressured by existing regulations such as the EU GDPR, online services must advertise a
personal data protection policy declaring the types and purposes of collected personal data …

Do cookie banners respect my choice?: Measuring legal compliance of banners from iab europe's transparency and consent framework

C Matte, N Bielova, C Santos - 2020 IEEE Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a result of the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, European users encounter cookie
banners on almost every website. Many of such banners are implemented by Consent …

Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of {Third-Party} Cookie Policies

G Franken, T Van Goethem, W Joosen - 27th USENIX Security …, 2018 - usenix.org
Nowadays, cookies are the most prominent mechanism to identify and authenticate users on
the Internet. Although protected by the Same Origin Policy, popular browsers include …

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 …

Token attempt: the misrepresentation of website privacy policies through the misuse of p3p compact policy tokens

PG Leon, LF Cranor, AM McDonald… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
P3P compact policies (CPs) are a collection of three-character and four-character tokens
that summarize a website's privacy policy pertaining to cookies. User agents, including …

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 …