The leakage of private information in corporations continues to occur on a large scale, with loss of thousands of records. The information privacy concerns are one dimension that can help to define organizations' attitudes ...

Users do not usually read privacy policies from online services. Among the main reasons for that is the fact that such policies are long and commonly hard to understand, which makes the user lose interest in reading them ...

This work has the objective of investigating privacy aspects in the collection of data by the National Digital Libraries of South America. Country-specific digital libraries were examined using an exploratory research ...

The high rate of growth and variety of information available on the Internet can overwhelm users, not leading them to the best decisions. In this context, social recommender systems play an important role on helping users ...

This thesis explored aspects that can help balance the level of user control and system autonomy for intelligent privacy agents in the context of the Internet of Things. This proposed balance could be reached considering ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is considered one of the emerging technologies in the area of information technology. The use of this technology provides an improvement to the population by providing better transportation ...

People tend to value their privacy, but are usually unaware about the extent to which their personal information is exposed through ordinary data available online. In this paper we describe an experience in which a group ...

We present the results of a study that collected, compared and analyzed the terms and conditions of a number of cloud services vis-a-vis privacy and data protection. First, we assembled a list of factors that comprehensively ...

With the increased use of information and communication technologies, there is the concern about privacy, due to excessive or improper use of information and data of individuals, reflecting the need for studies and discussions ...