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 …

Addressing privacy and data protection systematically throughout the process of
engineering information systems is a daunting task. Although the research community has …

We present the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking conducted to date,
based on a crawl of the top 1 million websites. We make 15 types of measurements on each …

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 …

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 present the first large-scale studies of three advanced web tracking mechanisms-canvas
fingerprinting, evercookies and use of" cookie syncing" in conjunction with evercookies …

Browser fingerprinting is an invasive and opaque stateless tracking technique. Browser
vendors, academics, and standards bodies have long struggled to provide meaningful …

Worldwide, the number of people and the time spent browsing the web keeps increasing.
Accordingly, the technologies to enrich the user experience are evolving at an amazing …

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 …

Third party tracking allows companies to identify users and track their behaviour across
multiple digital services. This paper presents an empirical study of the prevalence of third …