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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"privacy policies"”.
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Improving understanding of website privacy policies
Machine-readable privacy policies have been developed to help reduce user effort in understanding how websites will use personally identifiable information (PII). The goal of these policies is to enable the user to make informed decisions about the disclosure of personal information in web-based …
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Automated Change Detection in Privacy Policies
<p>Privacy policies notify Internet users about the privacy practices of websites, mobile apps, and other products and services. However, users rarely read them and struggle to understand their contents. Also, the entities that provide these policies are sometimes unmotivated to make them …
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Deficiencies in online privacy policies : factors and policy recommendations
… the full. scope and implications of attendant privacy hazards requires technical knowledge, creating information asymmetries for casual users. While a number of information asymmetries are proximately rooted in the substantive content of OSP privacy policies, the lack of countervailing …
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Modelling of a Privacy Language and Efficient Policy-based De-identification
… personalized services, which are regulated by privacy policies. Although privacy policies are strictly defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), no systematic mechanism is in place to enforce them. Especially if data is merged from several sources into a data-set with different …
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Privacy in the small
… Chapter 3 focuses on user understanding of privacy policies across linguistic boundaries, proposing a methodology for creating cross-language comparable corpora. Using English and Italian privacy policies, it showcases how language and cultural adaptations influence user comprehension of …
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Or Best Offer: A Privacy Policy Negotiation Protocol
… is collected, stored and used by Internet sites. Privacy policy languages, such as the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), allow websites to publish their privacy practices and policies in machine readable form. Currently, software agents designed to protect users' privacy follow a "take it or …
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Automating user privacy policy recommendations in social media
Most Social Media Platforms (SMPs) implement privacy policies that enable users to protect their sensitive information against privacy violations. However, observations indicate that users find these privacy policies cumbersome and difficult to configure. Consequently, various approaches have been …
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Mobile Phones Usage to the Right to Privacy to Society in West Urban Region of Zanzibar
Admittedly, the right to privacy is being invaded from the advancement of Information Communication Technology (ICT). The modern mobile phone technology has brought big fear toward the right to privacy in Zanzibar society. Prior to this ever widening telecommunication industry individuals to a …
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Privacy enforcement with data owner-defined policies
This thesis proposes a privacy protection framework for the controlled distribution and use of personal private data. The framework is based on the idea that privacy policies can be set directly by the data owner and can be automatically enforced against the data user. Data privacy continues to be …
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Privacy on the internet : Investigation into corporate privacy policy of Australian large private sector organisations on the internet
… people and it has led to some abusing systems. Privacy is one of the major issues in the development of Electronic Commerce using the Internet. As an enormous amount of personal information is transmitted to several hosts connecting to the Internet, the information can be accessed by both …
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Application Agnostic Network Traffic Modeling for Realistic Traffic Generation
… data with third parties to avoid violating privacy policies and avoid unintentional exposure of proprietary information to competitors. Therefore, many researchers resort to the use of synthetic traffic generators in networking experiments. Our survey of over 7000 networking research papers …
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A framework for specifying and formally verifying application security policies
… is ensuring that they meet certain security and privacy policies, which guide how the application should be written in order to satisfy particular security properties. Common examples of security policies include information-flow control and access control. In complex applications, which can be …
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Natural language processing on encrypted patient data
… their data analysis. Yet, stringent data privacy policies prevent outsourcing sensitive data and may stop the delegation of data analysis in its tracks. In this thesis, we put forth a two-party system where one party capable of powerful computation can run certain machine learning …
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Cross-domain network fault localization
… problem space in terms of inference accuracy, privacy, and scalability, and provides a framework to evaluate any design in the design spectrum. This frame-work not only explicitly models the inference accuracy and privacy requirements for discussing and reasoning over cross-domain problems, but …
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Understanding the Impact of Data Privacy Regulations on Software and Its Stakeholders
… Regulation (GDPR) is a comprehensive data privacy law that limits how businesses can collect personal information about their consumers living in the European Union. For our research, we aimed to evaluate the impact that the GDPR has on the open-source community, an online community that …
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Risk and Regulation of Access to Personal Data on Online Social Networking Services in the UK
… with industry experts, content analysis of privacy policies, and a legislative review. The research data are appended to the main body of the thesis. The research demonstrated the potential of risk as a means of distinguishing between different regulatory modes and concluded that a …
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Preventing information leaks with policy-agnostic programming
… programming paradigm that enforces security and privacy policies by construction. I present the implementation of this paradigm in a new language, Jeeves, that automatically enforces information flow policies describing how sensitive values may flow through computations. In Jeeves, the programmer …
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PrivacyInformer : an automated privacy description generator for the MIT App Inventor
… In this thesis, we first examine how privacy issues in the mobile apps market compromise the well-being of both app consumers and developers, noting that one important problem is the lack of usable privacy policies. Subsequently, we propose a technical solution named PrivacyInformer …
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Data Privacy Communications in Smart Home Technology for Older Adults: Evaluation, User Attitudes and Concerns, and Design Implications
… and accessibility challenges, due to data privacy and security concerns. Through the evaluation of privacy policies and user agreements of smart home devices from the perspective of the aging population, and a collection of the beliefs and attitudes older adults share about data privacy and …
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Testing Privacy and Security of Voice Interface Applications in the Internet of Things Era
… to the forefront issues related to security, privacy, and usability. Concerns such as the unauthorized collection of user data, the potential for recording private conversations, and challenges in accurately recognizing and executing commands across diverse accents, leading to …
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