The proliferation of information and communication technologies in enterprises enables
them to develop new business models and enhance their operational and commercial …

In today's Internet reliant services, the issue of users' information privacy awareness is being
raised. Despite the fact that in many cases internet users claim to be cognizant of privacy …

Third-party services form an integral part of the mobile ecosystem: they ease application
development and enable features such as analytics, social network integration, and app …

We study the ability of a passive eavesdropper to leverage" third-party" HTTP tracking
cookies for mass surveillance. If two web pages embed the same tracker which tags the …

In this paper, we quantify the effectiveness of third-party tracker blockers on a large scale.
First, we analyze the architecture of various state-of-the-art blocking solutions and discuss …

Web cookies are used widely by publishers and 3rd parties to track users and their
behaviors. Despite the ubiquitous use of cookies, there is little prior work on their …

Internet advertising and analytics technology companies are increasingly trying to find ways
to link behavior across the various devices consumers own. This cross-device tracking can …

Given the increasing popularity of social media and other Internet-related technologies,
individuals spend a lot of time across different online activities, such as doing Google …

With a general basis in protection motivation theory, this study builds a three-stage model
from online negative privacy experiences to online privacy protection motivation to online …

The problem of online privacy is often reduced to individual decisions to hide or reveal
personal information in online social networks (OSNs). However, with the increasing use of …