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Andreou, A., Silva, M., Benevenuto, F., Goga, O., Loiseau, P., & Mislove, A. (2019). Measuring the facebook advertising ecosystem. NDSS 2019 – Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, USA, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2019.23280

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Baum, K., Meißner, S., Abramova, O., & Krasnova, H. (2019). Do they really care about targeted political ads? Investigation of user privacy concerns and preferences. Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Sweden. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2019_rp/77/

Bennett, C. (2013). The politics of privacy and the privacy of politics: Parties, elections and voter surveillance in Western democracies. First Monday. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v18i8.4789

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Cossette, S. (2019). Nanotargeting and Automation of Political Discourse. Digitalization of Society and Socio‐political Issues 1: Digital, Communication and Culture, 39-49. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119687177.ch4

Cotter, K., Medeiros, M., Pak, C., & Thorson, K. (2021). “Reach the right people”: The politics of “interests” in Facebook’s classification system for ad targeting. Big Data & Society, 8(1), Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951721996046

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Dobber, T., Trilling, D., Helberger, N., & de Vreese, C. H. (2017). Two crates of beer and 40 pizzas: the adoption of innovative political behavioural targeting techniques. Internet Policy Review, 6(4), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.14763/2017.4.777

Dobber, T., Trilling, D., Helberger, N., & de Vreese, C. (2019). Spiraling downward: The reciprocal relation between attitude toward political behavioral targeting and privacy concerns. New Media & Society, 21(6), 1212-1231. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818813372

Dommett, K. (2019). Data-driven political campaigns in practice: understanding and regulating diverse data-driven campaigns. Internet Policy Review, 8(4). https://doi.org/10.14763/2019.4.1432

Dommett, K., & Bakir, M. E. (2020). A transparent digital election campaign? The insights and significance of political advertising archives for debates on electoral regulation. Parliamentary Affairs, 73, 208-224. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaa029

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Giombelli, G., Melloni, E., (2019). Virtual insanity. Country case study – Italy. European Partnership for Democracy. https://www.irsonline.it/materiali/Virtual_insanity_report_Italy_12112019.pdf

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Jaursch, J. (2020). Rules for fair digital campaigning. What risks are associated with online political advertising and what reforms are necessary in Germany. Stiftung Neue Verantwortung. https://www.stiftung-nv.de/sites/default/files/rules_for_fair_digital_campaigning.pdf

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Kozyreva A., Herzog, S., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Hertwig, R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2020). Artificial intelligence in online environments. Representative survey of public attitudes in Germany. Max Planck Institute for Human Development. https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3188061

Kruikemeier, S., Sezgin, M., & Boerman, S. C. (2016). Political microtargeting: Relationship between personalized advertising on facebook and voters’ responses. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 19(6), 367-372. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2015.0652

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Marquart, F., Goldberg, A. C., & de Vreese, C. H. (2020). ‘This time I’m (not) voting’: A comprehensive overview of campaign factors influencing turnout at European Parliament elections. European Union Politics, 21(4), 680-705. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116520943670

Marret, C. (2020). The impact of social media on elections. Disinformation and micro-targeting advertising in the 2019 EU Elections. NUPRI Working Paper WP 04. Núcleo de Pesquisa em Relacoes Internacionais: Universidade de Sao Paulo. Available at: https://nupri.prp.usp.br/pdf/wp/NUPRI_Working_Paper_04.pdf

Matz, S. C., Appel, R. E., & Kosinski, M. (2020). Privacy in the age of psychological targeting. Current opinion in psychology, 31, 116-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.08.010

Matz, S. C., Kosinski, M., Nave, G., & Stillwell, D. J. (2017). Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 114(48), 12714-12719. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710966114

Mavriki, P., & Karyda, M. (2018). Profiling with big data: Identifying privacy implication for individuals, groups and society. Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS 2018), 4. https://aisel.aisnet.org/mcis2018/4

Mavriki, P., & Karyda, M. (2019). Big data in political communication: implications for group privacy. International Journal of Electronic Governance, 11(3-4), 289-309. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEG.2019.103716

Mavriki, P., & Karyda, M. (2019). Automated data-driven profiling: threats for group privacy. Information & Computer Security. https://doi.org/10.1108/ICS-04-2019-0048

Mavriki, P., & Karyda, M. (2019, December). Big data analytics: From threatening privacy to challenging democracy. International Conference on e-Democracy (pp. 3-17). Springer. Retrieve from

Medina Serrano, J. C., Papakyriakopoulos, O., & Hegelich, S. (2020, July). Exploring political ad libraries for online advertising transparency: Lessons from Germany and the 2019 European Elections. In International Conference on Social Media and Society (pp. 111-121). https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400820

Menezes Cwajg, C. (2020). Transparency rules in online political advertising: Mapping global law and policy. Institute for Information Law: University of Amsterdam. Available at: https://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/download/TransparencyRulesOnlinePoliticalAds2020.pdf

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Pavel Havliček, P., & Rajtr, J., (2020). Virtual insanity. Digital political advertising in the Czech Republic. European Partnership for Democracy. https://www.amo.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/AMO_Digital-political-advertising-in-the-Czech-Republic_final.pdf

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Ryabtsev, K. (2020). Political Micro-Targeting in Europe: A Panacea for the Citizens’ Political Misinformation or the New Evil for Voting. Groningen Journal of International Law, 8(1), 69-89. https://doi.org/10.21827/GroJIL.8.1.69-89

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Schomakers, E. M., Lidynia, C., Müllmann, D., & Ziefle, M. (2019). Internet users’ perceptions of information sensitivity–insights from Germany. International Journal of Information Management, 46, 142-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.11.018

Segijn, C. M., & van Ooijen, I. (2021). Differences in consumer knowledge and perceptions of personalized advertising: Comparing online behavioural advertising and synced advertising. Journal of Marketing Communications, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527266.2020.1857297

Sideri, M., Fontaras, A., & Gritzalis, S. (2019). What do we know about our rights to data protection? A Greek case study. International Conference on e-Democracy (pp. 18-33). Springer, Cham. Retrieve from

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Tromble, R., Jacobs, K., & Louwerse, T. (2020). Virtual insanity. Transparency in digital political advertisements during the 2019 European Parliament Elections. Country report on the Netherlands. European Partnership for Democracy. https://epd.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NL-NHC-Virtual-Insanity-Report.pdf

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Zarouali, B., Dobber, T., De Pauw, G., & de Vreese, C. (2020). Using a personality-profiling algorithm to investigate political microtargeting: assessing the persuasion effects of personality-tailored ads on social media. Communication Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650220961965.

Zuiderveen Borgesius, F., Möller, J., Kruikemeier, S., Ó Fathaigh, R., Irion, K., Dobber, T., … & de Vreese, C. H. (2018). Online political microtargeting: promises and threats for democracy. Utrecht Law Review, 14(1), 82-96.  Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128787