Add reference for GDPR

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@ -44,18 +44,19 @@ For either opt-out or opt-in to work, a web site has to provide an option for
doing so. Because web sites increasingly use third parties to manage data
collection on their site, consent or rejection has to be passed to these third
parties and they have to be willing to accept such a decision. Since the
European's \gls{GDPR} came into force in 2018, service providers operating in
the European Union are required to ask users for explicit consent before
collecting any data, except when that data is absolutely necessary to ensure
basic functionality. It is not allowed to notify the user that by continuing to
visit the web site, consent to data collection is given. Furthermore, if consent
is not given, the web site provider is not allowed to block the user from
visiting the web site. Even before the \gls{GDPR}, the EU required web sites to
ask for informed consent via the ePrivacy Directive which came into force in
2013. \citet{trevisanYearsEUCookie2019} use their tool \emph{CookieCheck} to
evaluate how many of the surveyed 35.000 sites comply with the legislation put
forth in the ePrivacy Directive. Their findings indicate that almost half (49\%)
of the web sites use profiling technologies without consent. Similarly,
European's \gls{GDPR} \cite{europeanparliamentGeneralDataProtection2016} came
into force in 2018, service providers operating in the European Union are
required to ask users for explicit consent before collecting any data, except
when that data is absolutely necessary to ensure basic functionality. It is not
allowed to notify the user that by continuing to visit the web site, consent to
data collection is given. Furthermore, if consent is not given, the web site
provider is not allowed to block the user from visiting the web site. Even
before the \gls{GDPR}, the EU required web sites to ask for informed consent via
the ePrivacy Directive which came into force in 2013.
\citet{trevisanYearsEUCookie2019} use their tool \emph{CookieCheck} to evaluate
how many of the surveyed 35.000 sites comply with the legislation put forth in
the ePrivacy Directive. Their findings indicate that almost half (49\%) of the
web sites use profiling technologies without consent. Similarly,
\citet{sanchez-rolaCanOptOut2019a} show that tracking is still prevalent and
happens already before user consent is given after the \gls{GDPR} has been in
force for a year. \citet{huCharacterisingThirdParty2019} come to a a similar
@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ in chapter~\ref{chap:tracking methods} can be defended against.
For our purposes, clearing the browser history means not only clearing the web
sites that have been visited but also cookies and other relevant data that is
saved with a visit to a web site. All major browser offer this functionality and
saved with a visit to a web site. All major browsers offer this functionality and
what they delete is similar. Firefox, for example, allows clearing the browsing
and search history, form and search history, cookies (also flash cookies), the
cache, active logins, offline web site data and site preferences such as

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@ -461,8 +461,9 @@
author = {European Parliament and European Council},
year = {2016},
month = apr,
url = {https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679\&from=EN\#d1e6620-1-1},
urldate = {2020-08-25}
url = {https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679},
urldate = {2020-08-25},
note = {Accessed 2020-08-25}
}
@inproceedings{falahrastegarTrackingPersonalIdentifiers2016,
@ -494,7 +495,8 @@ Web cache timing attacks},
shorttitle = {Hypertext {{Transfer Protocol}} ({{HTTP}}/1.1)},
author = {Fielding, Roy and Reschke, Julian},
url = {https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232\#section-2.3},
urldate = {2020-08-25}
urldate = {2020-08-25},
note = {Accessed 2020-08-25}
}
@misc{fieldingHTTPLastModified,
@ -502,7 +504,8 @@ Web cache timing attacks},
shorttitle = {Hypertext {{Transfer Protocol}} ({{HTTP}}/1.1)},
author = {Fielding, Roy and Reschke, Julian},
url = {https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232\#section-2.2},
urldate = {2020-08-25}
urldate = {2020-08-25},
note = {Accessed 2020-08-25}
}
@misc{fieldingHTTPSemanticsContent2014,
@ -1183,7 +1186,8 @@ Impact of CSS-based history detection},
year = {2018},
month = aug,
url = {https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8446},
urldate = {2020-08-25}
urldate = {2020-08-25},
note = {Accessed 2020-08-25}
}
@inproceedings{reznichenkoAuctionsDonottrackCompliant2011,