Privacy Policies on the Fediverse: A Case Study of Mastodon Instances

E Tosch, L Garcia, C Li, C Martens - Proceedings on Privacy …, 2024 - petsymposium.org
Free and open source social platform software has dramatically lowered the barrier to entry
for anyone to set up and administer their own social network. This new population of social …

Signed, Sealed,... Confused: Exploring the Understandability and Severity of Policy Documents

S Soneji, S Panda, S Neve, J Dodge - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.08743, 2025 - arxiv.org
In general, Terms of Service (ToS) and other policy documents are verbose and full of legal
jargon, which poses challenges for users to understand. To improve user accessibility and …

Privacy at Risk: An Investigation of Data Collection Practices and Tracking Scripts on Government Websites in Java

SD Raraintan, NA Rakhmawati - 2024 Seventh International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The widespread use of the Internet has led users to frequently and unknowingly share
personal information. This research conducted an analysis of the data typically collected and …