4 papers
Research Opportunities and Challenges of the EU's Digital Services Act
Francesco Pierri, Theo Araujo, Sanne Kruikemeier +5
The Digital Services Act (DSA) introduced by the European Union in 2022 offers a landmark framework for platform transparency, with Article 40 enabling vetted researchers to access…
Online Behavioral Advertising: A Literature Review and Research Agenda
Sophie C. Boerman, Sanne Kruikemeier, Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius
Advertisers are increasingly monitoring people's online behavior and using the information collected to show people individually targeted advertisements. This phenomenon is called…
Tracking Walls, Take-It-Or-Leave-It Choices, the GDPR, and the ePrivacy Regulation
Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius, Sanne Kruikemeier, Sophie C. Boerman +1
On the internet, we encounter take-it-or-leave-it choices regarding our privacy on a daily basis. In Europe, online tracking for targeted advertising generally requires the interne…
Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy
Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius, Judith Möller, Sanne Kruikemeier +5
Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people's online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political a…