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 proposes an architecture that allows users to enhance their privacy control over the computational environment. Web privacy is a topic that is raising, nowadays, many discussions. Firstly because many people ...

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 ...

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 ...

Web mining is a concept that gathers all techniques, methods and algorithms used to extract information and knowledge from data originating on the web (web data). A part of this technique aims to analyze the behavior of ...

The interface implementation in e-commerce applications must consider two aspects: the privacy necessities of the user and the marketing utilization by the personalization application in services provided by sites in the ...

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 ...

The objective of this paper is to describe, on behalf of social network, elements which allow for identification of possible activity that can present potentially harmful effects to users' privacy, executed by either ...

In web services two points should be considered that end up conflicting: i) the user's right to have his privacy guaranteed and ii) the need of having the services personalized, providing a better user interaction on the ...