Research articles on PRIVACY & SECURITY

Perceived personal and societal data harms shape users’ data control preferences

Emilija Gagrčin, University of Bergen
Roland Toth, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Nadja Schaetz, University of Hamburg
Teresa Naab, University of Mannheim
Martin Emmer, Freie Universität Berlin
PUBLISHED ON: 9 Jan 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2060

Young Europeans respond differently to data harms: perceived adverse consequences to oneself lead to resignation from individual control while perceived adverse consequences for democracy motivate support for both personal and regulatory protections.

Developing the Citizen Summit Method: Understanding citizens’ views on digital surveillance technologies

Sally Dibb, Manchester Metropolitan University
Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews Business School
Sara Degli Esposti, Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC)
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Nov 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.4.2045

This paper discusses how to turn citizen summits into a robust, replicable, and participatory mixed methods approach for studying public views on digital surveillance technologies and other areas of internet policy.

By opening the craft of interdisciplinary method to more explicit scrutiny, this special issue provides a novel space to examine how knowledge in the domains of cybersecurity, privacy, and digital rights governance is made, contested, and reshaped.

‘Cookie-less’ identification for/against privacy?

Ido Sivan-Sevilla, University of Maryland
Patrick Parham, University of Maryland
Lee McGuigan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.3.2025

The online advertising industry is shifting content monetisation mechanisms to rely on first-party user identification architectures. The paper evaluates these architectures based on a novel typology to assess their privacy implications.

The impact of zero-knowledge proofs on data minimisation compliance of digital identity wallets

Emanuela Podda, Università degli Studi di Milano
Pol Hölzmer, University of Luxembourg
Alexandre Amard, University of Luxembourg
Johannes Sedlmeir, University of Münster
Gilbert Fridgen, University of Luxembourg
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jul 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.3.2019

Zero-knowledge proofs allow the implementation of the data minimisation principle imposed by the GDPR in digital identity wallets and the related personal data transactions, therefore representing a reasonable option to be enforced by lawmakers.

Transparency and content moderation are becoming increasingly interconnected within legislation. It is time for tech companies to recognise this in the context of borderline terrorist and violent extremist content moderation.

This paper uncovers the risks inherent in facial recognition within law enforcement, exploring multidimensional aspects affecting data protection vs public security within the regulatory frameworks of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Artificial Intelligence Act.

The death of privacy policies: How app stores shape GDPR compliance of apps

Julia Krämer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 2 Apr 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1757

This paper delivers a legal analysis that explores whether the privacy labels of the Apple App Store and Google Play Store meet the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), along with insights into the adoption of app developers to map the extent of the problem.