Browsing by Subject "Privacy assessment"

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    Evolution of web tracking protection in Chrome
    (2023-11-08) Pan, Ronghao; Ruiz-Martínez, Antonio; Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones
    In our society, protecting users’ privacy is of utmost importance, especially when users access websites. Increased awareness of privacy concerns has led web browsers to implement new mechanisms to improve privacy while browsing the Internet. In each new version of web browsers, it is claimed that they provide better improvements to protect our privacy. However, there is no analysis of these improvements. To cope with this issue, in this paper, we present an analysis of the privacy of different versions of the Chrome web browser. This analysis is based on the PrivacyScanner tool, which we have improved with the detection of additional tracking techniques. Our findings reveal that tracking protection has seen modest enhancements (namely, between Chrome version 83 and 90, we observed a 7.55% reduction in trackers and 4.76% decrease in Google Analytics elements). Therefore, despite these improvements, there is still ample room for further enhancement.
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    Privacy paradox in the mobile environment: The influence of the emotions
    (EPI SCP, 2019-03-25) Sarabia Sánchez, Francisco José; Aguado Terrón, Juan Miguel; Martínez Martínez, Inmaculada J.; Comunicación
    The privacy paradox designates the contradiction between a negative perception of online privacy exploitation by users and a relaxed or passive attitude of users towards the protection of their digital privacy. Since regulation alone is not sufficient to effectively manage the digital privacy problem, promoting responsible, conscious and active behaviour towards the protection of one's own online privacy is a key element of the digital ecosystem. In this sense, understanding and helping to eliminate the privacy paradox have been research and policy objectives for digital services since the beginning of this century, which has intensified with the development of Big Data and AI. However, the existing literature has approached the privacy paradox from the perspective of perceived benefit and thus from a rational calculus perspective. This paper, in contrast, approaches the study of the privacy paradox from the perspective of emotions, their nature (active versus passive emotions) and their intensity (high or moderate). The paper develops a complex structured questionnaire with a relevant international sample of digital users. The aim is to measure the emotional response (intensity and nature of emotions involved) to an incident of unauthorised disclosure of their private data (data breach), comparing this response with the behaviour of changing privacy settings and the propensity to allow access to personal data by using the mobile device in their applications/social networks. The paper concludes that there is a clear disconnect between informational behavioural decisions about privacy management and emotions associated with perceptions of privacy in social networks and mobile apps, even when these are more intense or active in nature. This emotional dissociation reinforces the mechanics of the privacy paradox, making it difficult to intervene to promote consistent digital behaviours. The candidate has been involved in the development of the state of the question, the conceptual framework and the design of the questionnaire, as well as in the analysis of the results and the drawing of conclusions.