Global Web, Local Privacy? an International Review of Web Tracking

Web tracking by ad networks, social networks, and other third parties is privacy-invasive. To protect users' privacy an increasing number of countries are adopting new privacy laws. However, a major reason why their application on the web is so challenging is that privacy laws are local while the...

When the Abyss Looks Back: Unveiling Evolving Dark Patterns in Cookie Consent Banners

To comply with data protection regulations such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, websites widely deploy cookie consent banners to collect users' privacy preferences. In practice, however, these interfaces often embed dark patterns tha...

Navigating Cookie Consent Violations across the Globe

Online services provide users with cookie banners to accept/reject the cookies placed on their web browsers. Despite the increased adoption of cookie banners, little has been done to ensure that cookie consent is compliant with privacy laws around the globe. Prior studies have found that cookies...

Design/Logic Flaw

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in runtime environments, helping enforce privacy regulations in code. The Fides web application allows users to edit consent and privacy notices such as cookie banners. The vulnerability mak...

CVE-2023-46126 Fides JavaScript Injection Vulnerability in Privacy Center URL

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in runtime environments, helping enforce privacy regulations in code. The Fides web application allows users to edit consent and privacy notices such as cookie banners. The vulnerability mak...

CVE-2023-46126 Fides JavaScript Injection Vulnerability in Privacy Center URL

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in runtime environments, helping enforce privacy regulations in code. The Fides web application allows users to edit consent and privacy notices such as cookie banners. The vulnerability mak...

TikTok Fined $5.4 Million by French Regulator for Violating Cookie Laws

Popular short-form video hosting service TikTok has been fined €5 million about $5.4 million by the French data protection watchdog for breaking cookie consent rules, making it the latest platform to face similar penalties after Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft since 2020. "Users of 'tiktok.co...