To counteract the ads and third-party tracking ubiquitous on the web, users turn to blocking
tools—ad-blocking and tracking-protection browser extensions and built-in features …

With the pervasive and evolving use of tracking and AI to make inferences about online
platform users, it has become imperative for adolescents—a key demographic using such …

Personal data are strongly linked to web browsing history. By visiting a certain website, a
user can share her favorite items, location, employment status, financial information …

Since May 25 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulates the handling
of personal data both for companies in the European Union and European Citizens. It is part …

Emphasizing the perspective of ordinary users, this book compares the uses of the internet
in three centers of the global economy and world politics: China, Europe, and the United …

With the rapid growth of web networks, the security and privacy of online users are
becoming more compromised. Especially, the use of third-party services to track users' …

During everyday web browsing and search users reveal many pieces of private information
to third parties. Even though people report being concerned about their privacy online, they …

Smart technology in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT) that extensively gathers user data
in order to provide full functioning has become ubiquitous in our everyday life. At the …

The rise of e-learning systems has revolutionized education, enabling the collection of
valuable students' activity data for continuous improvement. While existing studies have …

Despite the widespread knowledge that corporations collect and exchange user online
personal data (OPD) between themselves in a market for OPD, there have been few …