Analysis and compliance evaluation of cookies-setting websites with privacy protection laws

Aladeokin, Adeyemi; Zavarsky, Pavol; Memon, Neelam

doi:10.1109/icdim.2017.8244646

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“…Findings show that 3rd parties resolve to a few sets of prominent corporations, revealing that few companies own vast troves of user data. Notable amongst these companies are Google, Facebook, DoubleClick, and Akamai [21,22]. Website operators in Africa also sometimes share user data with 3rd parties for processing.…”

Section: Third-party Activity: Processing (Outsourcing) and Trackingmentioning

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State of Security and Privacy Practices of Top Websites in the East African Community (EAC)

Mohamed¹,

Dare²,

Olanrewaju³

et al. 2021

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Growth in technology has resulted in the large-scale collection and processing of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) by organizations that run digital services such as websites, which led to the emergence of new legislation to regulate PII collection and processing by organizations. Subsequently, several African countries have recently started enacting new data protection regulations due to recent technological innovations. However, there is little information about the security and privacy practices of top websites serving content to EAC citizens. We, therefore, analyze the website operator's patterns in terms of third-party tracking, security of data transmission, cookie information, and privacy policies for 169 top EAC website operators using WebXray, OpenSSL, and Alexa top websites API. Our results show that only 75% of the analyzed websites have a privacy policy in place. Out of this, only 16% of the third-party tracking companies that track users on a particular website are disclosed in the site's privacy policy statements which means that users don't have a way of knowing which third parties collect data about them when they visit a website. Such privacy policies take time to read and are difficult to understand; on average, it takes a college graduate to comprehend the policy and a user spends 12 minutes to read the policy. Additionally, most thirdparty tracking on EAC websites are related to advertisement and belong to companies outside the EAC. This means that EAC lawmakers need to enact suitable laws to ensure that people's privacy is protected as the rate of technology adoption continues to increase.

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Section: Third-party Activity: Processing (Outsourcing) and Trackingmentioning

confidence: 99%

State of Security and Privacy Practices of Top Websites in the East African Community (EAC)

Mohamed¹,

Dare²,

Olanrewaju³

et al. 2021

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State of Security and Privacy Practices of Top Websites in the East African Community (EAC)

Mohamed

Dare

Olanrewaju

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2022, Volume 2

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Proposed Guidelines for Website Data Privacy Policies and an Application Thereof

Vorster,

da Veiga

2023

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Analysis and compliance evaluation of cookies-setting websites with privacy protection laws

Cited by 6 publications

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State of Security and Privacy Practices of Top Websites in the East African Community (EAC)

State of Security and Privacy Practices of Top Websites in the East African Community (EAC)

State of Security and Privacy Practices of Top Websites in the East African Community (EAC)

Proposed Guidelines for Website Data Privacy Policies and an Application Thereof

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