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 ...

Development of Information Systems that ensure privacy is a challenging task that spans various fields such as technology, law and policy. Reports of recent privacy infringements indicate that we are far from not only ...

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 ...

Many Smart Grid books include "privacy" in their title, but only touch on privacy, with most of the discussion focusing on cybersecurity. Filling this knowledge gap, Data Privacy for the Smart Grid provides a clear description ...

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 ...

Search engines use strategies to deal with information overload and in so doing, they provide more efficient results, such as personal search, which by collecting multiple data from participants can involve threats to ...

Considering the privacy concerns on users' data in social networks, the role of images on social networks and the images as data sources, this paper aims to identify how data collection from images is treated in Facebook ...

This article claims that the Notice and Consent (N&C) approach is not efficient to protect the privacy of personal data. On the contrary, N&C could be seen as a license to freely exploit the individual’s personal data. For ...