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most citedDoes Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes? Worldwide Analysis and GDPR Impact

25 citations · 74 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SI2023

Analysis and implementation of nanotargeting on LinkedIn based on publicly available non-PII

Ángel Merino, José González-Cabañas, Ángel Cuevas +1

The literature has shown that combining a few non-Personal Identifiable Information (non-PII) is enough to make a user unique in a dataset including millions of users. This work de…

cs.CY2022★ 3 cited

CarbonTag: A Browser-Based Method for Approximating Energy Consumption of Online Ads

José González Cabañas, Patricia Callejo, Rubén Cuevas +5

Energy is today the most critical environmental challenge. The amount of carbon emissions contributing to climate change is significantly influenced by both the production and cons…

cs.SI2021★ 13 cited

Unique on Facebook: Formulation and Evidence of (Nano)targeting Individual Users with non-PII Data

José González-Cabañas, Ángel Cuevas, Rubén Cuevas +2

The privacy of an individual is bounded by the ability of a third party to reveal their identity. Certain data items such as a passport ID or a mobile phone number may be used to u…

cs.SI2021★ 17 cited

Digital Contact Tracing: Large-scale Geolocation Data as an Alternative to Bluetooth-based Apps' Failure

José González-Cabañas, Ángel Cuevas, Rubén Cuevas +1

The currently deployed contact-tracing mobile apps have failed as an efficient solution in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. None of them has managed to attract the number of a…

cs.SI2019★ 25 cited

Does Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes? Worldwide Analysis and GDPR Impact

Ángel Cuevas, José González Cabañas, Aritz Arrate +1

The recent European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection regulations restrict the processing of some categories of personal data (health, political o…

cs.SI2018★ 16 cited

Facebook Use of Sensitive Data for Advertising in Europe

José González Cabañas, Ángel Cuevas, Rubén Cuevas

The upcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) prohibits the processing and exploitation of some categories of personal data (health, political orientation, sexual…