Tracking And Privacy: The Case of News Site Delfi
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2021
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Tartu Ülikool
Abstract
Privacy and tracking on the internet are concerns that have gotten more and more
attention over the last few years. Among the biggest perpetrators of online tracking are news
sites. Since many provide their content for free, and do not have an external funding source,
they need to monetize pageviews by displaying advertising. The purpose of this thesis is to
provide a privacy analysis of the Estonian news site delfi.ee. Delfi was chosen because it is
the largest and most visited news site in Estonia. During the research some privacy issues
were found showing that Delfi is currently not GDPR compliant. This thesis provides an
overview of some commonly used tracking techniques, how they apply in the context of
Delfi, and an analysis of Delfi’s privacy policies.
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Tracking, privacy, cookies, HTTP requests, social login, local storage, privacy policy, cookie policy, GDPR