This post is built around my paper (presented to/at the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering) devoted to privacy assessment in web standards. After the previous one (Battery Status Not Included: Assessing Privacy in W3C Web Standards) this is the next insight in this domain. While I point out the…
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The user’s Web browsing history is usually defined as a list of websites the user has visited, such as “google.com, facebook.com, reddit.com, bbc.co.uk, random-site.org, etcetc.org.uk”. On its own, it may seem innocuous. It turns out browsing history can be processed to…
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Over the past few years, waves of shocking privacy misuses, data breaches, and abuses have crashed on the world's biggest companies and billions of their users. At the same time, many countries have bolstered their data protection rules. Europe set the tone in 2016 with the General Data Protection Regulation,…
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Designing standards with privacy in mind should be a standard in itself. Historically this was not always the case and the idea of designing systems with privacy is relatively new - it dates from the beginning of this decade. One of the milestones is accepting this view on the IETF…
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