Evaluating privacy - determining user privacy expectations on the web

Evaluating User Privacy in Bitcoin

Bitcoin is quickly emerging as a popular digital payment system. However, in spite of its reliance on pseudonyms, Bitcoin raises a number of privacy concerns due to the fact that all of the transactions that take place are publicly announced in the system. In this paper, we investigate the privacy provisions in Bitcoin when it is used as a primary currency to support the daily transactions of i...

The Anonymizer Protecting User Privacy on the Web

The employee or politician who wants to protect his or her privacy when viewing sensitive medical information, a competitor’s web site, sexual materials, or a web site catering to a marginalized group (e.g., gay rights, pro-choice or pro-life). The scientist who is asked to anonymously review a colleague’s article submission and wants to gather background materials from the author’s web site. T...

User Perceptions of Privacy and Security on the Web

This paper describes an online survey that was conducted to explore typical Internet users’ awareness and knowledge of specific technologies that relate to their security and privacy when using a Web browser to access the Internet. The survey was conducted using an anonymous, online questionnaire. Over a four month period, 237 individuals completed the questionnaire. Respondents were predominat...

Evaluating Privacy Practices in Web 2.0 Services

This paper discusses the effectiveness of privacy practices and tools employed by Web 2.0 service providers to facilitate users protect their privacy and respond to public pressure. By experimenting on three recently introduced tools, which claim to offer users access and choice on the data stored about them, we analyse their privacy preserving features. Research results indicate their limited ...

Putting mobile application privacy in context: An empirical study of user privacy expectations for mobile devices