Vagueness and ambiguity in privacy policies threaten the ability of consumers to make informed choices about how businesses collect, use, and share their personal information. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018 was intended to provide ...

The recording, aggregation, and exchange of personal data is necessary to the development of socially-relevant machine learning applications. However, anecdotal and survey evidence show that ordinary people feel discontent and even anger regarding data ...

In this paper, we present TILT, a transparency information language and toolkit explicitly designed to represent and process transparency information in line with the requirements of the GDPR and allowing for a more automated and adaptive use of such ...

This paper offers an overview of the highlights of the 2021 NISO Plus Annual Conference that was held virtually from February 22–February 25, 2021. This was the second NISO Plus annual conference. The first one was held in 2020 and replaced what ...

Nowadays, the adoption of smart cities worldwide is accelerating the digital transformation of urban environments. Besides, a huge amount of data is being exchanged through the smart devices, networks, cloud infrastructure, big data analysis and ...

As nations expand the telecommunications interception and access powers of their law enforcement agencies to address heightened threats to national security and accelerating technological convergence, the proper application of the proportionality ...

Autonomous vehicles are on the cusp of disrupting the entire transportation industry and current privacy legislation is not yet equipped to deal with the changes being spurred by this innovation. This paper enumerates and elucidates on the various ...

This paper explores the content themes and provision structures of the website privacy policies of a nonrandom sample of comparable universities across the United States. Because these organizations collect, analyze, and manage personal information via ...

Under privacy regulation, what exactly is personal information? This is an important concept in a changing landscape of technology and information disclosure, in which it's becoming increasingly easier to identify and reidentify individuals. Legal ...

For several years, concern has been mounting about the privacy implications of using and disclosing prescription data. Several transactions forming part of a growing chain of valuable health information have come under scrutiny, including 1) the sale or ...

Prescription data disclosed by pharmacies without patient consent, could constitute a breach of privacy if individual patients can be re-identified by third parties. This article analyzes the concept of identifiability under Canadian and US privacy laws,...

Like many nations, Australia is currently weighing numerous options regarding privacy legislation. The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has released a 2,000-page review of Australian privacy law, in which it proposes several changes that would ...

The government of Hong Kong has achieved remarkable staged results according to its comprehensive E-government blueprint. At the same time, it is its statutory responsibility to protect privacy and personal data. However, there has been a succession of ...

Location technology allows for the tracking and tracing of individuals. Developments in location technology allow for increasing levels of detail to keep an eye on ones private life. There are concerns that the privacy awareness among citizens and ...

As people increasingly move their personal business online, we must redefine the notion of "home" and its boundaries in order tomaintain privacy.

The Internet has created a tremendous opportunity to access a large amount of products, services and information easily in a fast and easy way. At the same time, websites collect personal information (PI) from consumers, in order to fulfil their ...