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03/06/2023
A Note on the Proposed Law for Improving the Transparency of Political Advertising in the European Union
There is an increasing supply and demand for political advertising throu...
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02/20/2023
Reflections on the Data Governance Act
The European Union (EU) has been pursuing a new strategy under the umbre...
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02/20/2023
Recent Trends in Cross-Border Data Access by Law Enforcement Agencies
Access to online data has long been important for law enforcement agenci...
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02/20/2023
A Text Mining Analysis of Data Protection Politics: The Case of Plenary Sessions of the European Parliament
Data protection laws and policies have been studied extensively in recen...
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02/20/2023
Mysterious and Manipulative Black Boxes: A Qualitative Analysis of Perceptions on Recommender Systems
Recommender systems are used to provide relevant suggestions on various ...
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07/27/2021
A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI
Different security issues are a common problem for open source packages ...
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06/26/2021
Digital Divides and Online Media
Digital divide has been a common concern during the past two or three de...
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06/25/2021
Crossing Cross-Domain Paths in the Current Web
The loading of resources from third-parties has evoked new security and ...
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06/21/2021
A Comparative Study of Online Disinformation and Offline Protests
In early 2021 the United States Capitol in Washington was stormed during...
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06/19/2021
Reassessing Measures for Press Freedom
There has been a newly refound interest in press freedom in the face of ...
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04/09/2021
A Few Observations About State-Centric Online Propaganda
This paper presents a few observations about pro-Kremlin propaganda betw...
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02/23/2021
Assessing the Readability of Policy Documents on the Digital Single Market of the European Union
Today, literature skills are necessary. Engineering and other technical ...
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02/06/2021
A Review of Product Safety Regulations in the European Union
Product safety has been a concern in Europe ever since the early 1960s. ...
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12/04/2020
The Treachery of Images in the Digital Sovereignty Debate
This analytical essay contributes to the ongoing deliberation about the ...
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11/14/2020
Do Cyber Capabilities and Cyber Power Incentivize International Cooperation?
This paper explores a research question about whether defensive and offe...
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11/02/2020
The GDPR Enforcement Fines at Glance
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in 2018. A...
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11/02/2020
A Critical Correspondence on Humpty Dumpty's Funding for European Journalism
This short critical correspondence discusses the Digital News Innovation...
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07/24/2020
A Case Study on Software Vulnerability Coordination
Context: Coordination is a fundamental tenet of software engineering. Co...
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04/30/2020
Extracting Layered Privacy Language Purposes from Web Services
Web services are important in the processing of personal data in the Wor...
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03/22/2020
Annotation-Based Static Analysis for Personal Data Protection
This paper elaborates the use of static source code analysis in the cont...
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03/11/2020
Predicting the Amount of GDPR Fines
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enforced in 2018. Afte...
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02/25/2020
Measuring Basic Load-Balancing and Fail-Over Setups for Email Delivery via DNS MX Records
The domain name system (DNS) has long provided means to assure basic loa...
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01/28/2020
A Dip Into a Deep Well: Online Political Advertisements, Valence, and European Electoral Campaigning
Online political advertisements have become an important element in elec...
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09/05/2019
Empirical Notes on the Interaction Between Continuous Kernel Fuzzing and Development
Fuzzing has been studied and applied ever since the 1990s. Automated and...
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07/17/2019
The General Data Protection Regulation: Requirements, Architectures, and Constraints
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union is t...
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06/05/2019
Updating the Wassenaar Debate Once Again: Surveillance, Intrusion Software, and Ambiguity
This paper analyzes a recent debate on regulating cyber weapons through ...
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06/05/2019
David and Goliath: Privacy Lobbying in the European Union
The paper examines a question of how much more resources do organized bu...
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12/13/2018
A Demand-Side Viewpoint to Software Vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugins
WordPress has long been the most popular content management system (CMS)...
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10/31/2018
An Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Python Packages for Web Applications
This paper examines software vulnerabilities in common Python packages u...
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09/15/2018
On the Integrity of Cross-Origin JavaScripts
The same-origin policy is a fundamental part of the Web. Despite the res...
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09/05/2018
Toward Validation of Textual Information Retrieval Techniques for Software Weaknesses
This paper presents a preliminary validation of common textual informati...
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08/22/2018
Invisible Pixels Are Dead, Long Live Invisible Pixels!
Privacy has deteriorated in the world wide web ever since the 1990s. The...
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05/24/2018
A Bug Bounty Perspective on the Disclosure of Web Vulnerabilities
Bug bounties have become increasingly popular in recent years. This pape...
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05/16/2018
Investigating the Agility Bias in DNS Graph Mining
The concept of agile domain name system (DNS) refers to dynamic and rapi...
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04/20/2018
An Empirical Survey on the Early Adoption of DNS Certification Authority Authorization
A new certification authority authorization (CAA) resource record for th...
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01/23/2018
Whose Hands Are in the Finnish Cookie Jar?
Web cookies are ubiquitously used to track and profile the behavior of u...
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01/03/2018
A Look at the Time Delays in CVSS Vulnerability Scoring
This empirical paper examines the time delays that occur between the pub...
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10/16/2017
How PHP Releases Are Adopted in the Wild?
This empirical paper examines the adoption of PHP releases in the the co...
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