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In this opinion paper, we examine several challenges to privacy online, for both enterprises and individual users. We argue that we have come to a turning point and we need to regain control over how our data is handled even when outside our reach. We give an overview of a set of measures at the intersection of legal and technical domains, to underline that only a combined approach can really put online privacy back in the hands of the users.
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Google Trends reports a massive increase in searching for ‘data privacy compliance’ in the UK since 2005 [7].
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Indeed, we still have a long way towards readable terms of licence and similar usage agreements.
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Gheorghe, G., Engel, T. (2016). Towards Reinventing Online Privacy. In: Berendt, B., Engel, T., Ikonomou, D., Le Métayer, D., Schiffner, S. (eds) Privacy Technologies and Policy. APF 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9484. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31456-3_11
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