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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) provide sensing and monitoring services by means of many tiny autonomous devices equipped with wireless radio transceivers. As WSNs are deployed on a large-scale and/or on long-term basis, not only…

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A growing body of research leverages social network based trust relationships to improve the functionality of the system. However, these systems expose users' trust relationships, which is considered sensitive information in today's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Prateek Mittal , Charalampos Papamanthou , Dawn Song

This paper describes privacy-preserving approaches for the statistical analysis. It describes motivations for privacy-preserving approaches for the statistical analysis of sensitive data, presents examples of use cases where such methods…

Companies are looking to data anonymization research $\unicode{x2013}$ including differential private and synthetic data methods $\unicode{x2013}$ for simple and straightforward compliance solutions. But data anonymization has not taken off…

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Web tracking is a pervasive and opaque practice that enables personalized advertising, retargeting, and conversion tracking. Over time, it has evolved into a sophisticated and invasive ecosystem, employing increasingly complex techniques to…

Voice anonymisation aims to conceal the voice identity of speakers in speech recordings. Privacy protection is usually estimated from the difficulty of using a speaker verification system to re-identify the speaker post-anonymisation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Michele Panariello , Sarina Meyer , Pierre Champion , Xiaoxiao Miao , Massimiliano Todisco , Ngoc Thang Vu , Nicholas Evans

Machine learning models have recently enjoyed a significant increase in size and popularity. However, this growth has created concerns about dataset privacy. To counteract data leakage, various privacy frameworks guarantee that the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Coleman DuPlessie , Aidan Gao

This articles surveys the existing literature on the methods currently used by web services to track the user online as well as their purposes, implications, and possible user's defenses. A significant majority of reviewed articles and web…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Tomasz Bujlow , Valentín Carela-Español , Josep Solé-Pareta , Pere Barlet-Ros

Network data needs to be shared for distributed security analysis. Anonymization of network data for sharing sets up a fundamental tradeoff between privacy protection versus security analysis capability. This privacy/analysis tradeoff has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-10 William Yurcik , Clay Woolam , Greg Hellings , Latifur Khan , Bhavani Thuraisingham

Information or data is very crucial resource to us. Thus securing the information becomes all the more necessary. The communication media through which we send data does not provide data security, so other methods of securing data are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Richa Gupta , Sunny Gupta , Anuradha Singhal

Despite having growing awareness and concerns about privacy, technology users are often insufficiently informed of the data practices of various digital products to protect themselves. Privacy policies and privacy labels, as two…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Varun Shiri , Charles Liu , Keyu Yao , Jin L. C. Guo , Jinghui Cheng

We formulate and study the problem of ON-OFF privacy. ON-OFF privacy algorithms enable a user to continuously switch his privacy between ON and OFF. An obvious example is the incognito mode in internet browsers. But beyond internet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Fangwei Ye , Carolina Naim , Salim El Rouayheb

Real-time, online-editing web apps provide free and convenient services for collaboratively editing, sharing and storing files. The benefits of these web applications do not come for free: not only do service providers have full access to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yihao Hu , Ari Trachtenberg , Prakash Ishwar

People are becoming increasingly concerned with their online privacy, especially with how advertising companies track them across websites (a practice called cross-site tracking), as reconstructing a user's browser history can reveal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Alisha Ukani

Organisations disclose their privacy practices by posting privacy policies on their website. Even though users often care about their digital privacy, they often don't read privacy policies since they require a significant investment in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mukund Srinath , Shomir Wilson , C. Lee Giles

When users leave their mobile devices unattended, or let others use them momentarily, they are susceptible to privacy breaches. Existing technological defenses, such as unlock authentication or account switching, have proven to be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Tiago Guerreiro , Ana Pires , Luís Carriço

Event logs recorded during the execution of business processes constitute a valuable source of information. Applying process mining techniques to them, event logs may reveal the actual process execution and enable reasoning on quantitative…

Location-Based Service (LBS) becomes increasingly popular with the dramatic growth of smartphones and social network services (SNS), and its context-rich functionalities attract considerable users. Many LBS providers use users' location…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Xiang-Yang Li , Taeho Jung

Privacy policies are legal documents that describe how a website will collect, use, and distribute a user's data. Unfortunately, such documents are often overly complicated and filled with legal jargon; making it difficult for users to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zachary Lindner

Do people care about their location privacy while using location-based service apps? This paper aims to answer this question and several other hypotheses through a survey, and review the privacy preservation techniques. Our results indicate…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Sina Shaham , Saba Rafieian , Ming Ding , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Zihuai Lin