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Third-Party Data Leaks on the Web: Notes on Personally Identifiable Information
Authors: Puhtila, Panu; Rauti, Sampsa
Editors: Rocha, Alvaro; Adeli, Hojjat; Poniszewska-Maranda, Aneta; Moreira, Fernando; Bianchi, Isaias
Conference name: World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication year: 2025
Journal: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Book title : Emerging Trends in Information Systems and Technologies : WorldCIST 2025. Volume 1
Volume: 1514
First page : 245
Last page: 258
ISBN: 978-3-031-97118-1
eISBN: 978-3-031-97119-8
ISSN: 2367-3370
eISSN: 2367-3389
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97119-8_18
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Web address : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97119-8_18
Third-party data leaks are a serious privacy issue in the web environment. Personal data leaks to third parties have been studied widely in many case studies covering several different application areas. While these studies show the extent of such privacy violations, the actual mechanisms that allow this phenomenon to occur, the nature of leaking data items, and the factors that make these data leaks serious are often not analyzed comprehensively. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by presenting an in-depth analysis of the nature of third-party data leaks, the data items that are usually leaked, and the reasons that make these leaks highly problematic. We combine data from research literature and technical documentations to present a comprehensive inquiry into this technological phenomenon.
Funding information in the publication:
This research has been funded by Academy of Finland project 327397, IDA–Intimacy in Data-Driven Culture.
