BackgroundAlong with the proliferation of health information technologies (HITs), there is a growing need to understand the potential privacy risks associated with using such tools. Although privacy policies are designed to inform
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Privacy Policy and Technology in Biomedical Data Science. [PDF]
Privacyis an important consideration when sharing clinical data, which often contain sensitive information. Adequate protection to safeguard patient privacy and to increase public trust in biomedical research is paramount.
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Toward the Cure of Privacy Policy Reading Phobia: Automated Generation of Privacy Nutrition Labels From Privacy Policies [PDF]
Software applications have become an omnipresent part of modern society. The consequent privacy policies of these applications play a significant role in informing customers how their personal information is collected, stored, and used. However, customers rarely read and often fail to understand privacy policies because of the ``Privacy Policy Reading ...
Shidong Pan+6 more
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Do the Right Thing: A Privacy Policy Adherence Analysis of over Two Million Apps in Apple iOS App Store [PDF]
Mobile app developers are often obliged by regulatory frameworks to provide a privacy policy in natural comprehensible language to describe their apps’ privacy practices.
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Online service providers are aggressively evolving the digital systems around us into surveillance platforms. From voice assistants that listen to every conversation, to apps that share sensitive location information, privacy experts have raised concerns
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The Shorter the Better? Effects of Privacy Policy Length on Online Privacy Decision-Making
Privacy policies provide Internet users with the possibility to inform themselves about websites’ usage of their disclosed personal data. Strikingly, however, most people tend not to read privacy policies because they are long and cumbersome, indicating ...
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Compliance With Electronic Medical Records Privacy Policy: An Empirical Investigation of Hospital Information Technology Staff [PDF]
The employment of Electronic Medical Records is expected to better enhance health care quality and to relieve increased financial pressure. Electronic Medical Records are, however, potentially vulnerable to security breaches that may result in a rise of ...
Ming-Ling Sher MPH+3 more
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Extending Layered Privacy Language to Support Privacy Icons for a Personal Privacy Policy User Interface [PDF]
The LPL Personal Privacy Policy User Interface (LPL PPP UI) is designed to allow for informed and free consent. An extension for the Layered Privacy Language and the Privacy Icons Overview is introduced here. The capabilities of the LPL PPP UI consist of
Armin Gerl
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Demystifying Privacy Policy of Third-Party Libraries in Mobile Apps [PDF]
The privacy of personal information has received significant attention in mobile software. Although researchers have designed methods to identify the conflict between app behavior and privacy policies, little is known about the privacy compliance issues ...
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Scrutinizing Privacy Policy Compliance of Virtual Personal Assistant Apps
A large number of functionality-rich and easily accessible applications have become popular among various virtual personal assistant (VPA) services such as Amazon Alexa.
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