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The proliferation of large AI models trained on uncurated, often sensitive web-scraped data has raised significant privacy concerns. One of the concerns is that adversaries can extract information about the training data using privacy…

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Because of the explosive growth of face photos as well as their widespread dissemination and easy accessibility in social media, the security and privacy of personal identity information becomes an unprecedented challenge. Meanwhile, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yunqian Wen , Li Song , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie

In this work, we propose a profile matching (or deanonymization) attack for unstructured online social networks (OSNs) in which similarity in graphical structure cannot be used for profile matching. We consider different attributes that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Anisa Halimi , Erman Ayday

The purpose of anonymizing structured data is to protect the privacy of individuals in the data while retaining the statistical properties of the data. There is a large body of work that examines anonymization vulnerabilities. Focusing on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Paul Francis , David Wagner

The use of virtual and augmented reality devices is increasing, but these sensor-rich devices pose risks to privacy. The ability to track a user's motion and infer the identity or characteristics of the user poses a privacy risk that has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Vivek Nair , Mark Roman Miller , Rui Wang , Brandon Huang , Christian Rack , Marc Erich Latoschik , James F. O'Brien

A crucial privacy-driven issue nowadays is re-identifying anonymized social networks by mapping them to correlated cross-domain auxiliary networks. Prior works are typically based on modeling social networks as random graphs representing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Luoyi Fu , Xinzhe Fu , Zhongzhao Hu , Zhiying Xu , Xinbing Wang

As the issues of privacy and trust are receiving increasing attention within the research community, various attempts have been made to anonymize textual data. A significant subset of these approaches incorporate differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Justus Mattern , Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum

Due to their convenience and high accuracy, face recognition systems are widely employed in governmental and personal security applications to automatically recognise individuals. Despite recent advances, face recognition systems have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mathias Ibsen , Lázaro J. González-Soler , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Christoph Busch

The popularity of online social media platforms provides an unprecedented opportunity to study real-world complex networks of interactions. However, releasing this data to researchers and the public comes at the cost of potentially exposing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Luca Rossi , Mirco Musolesi , Andrea Torsello

Background knowledge is an important factor in privacy preserving data publishing. Distribution-based background knowledge is one of the well studied background knowledge. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Jian Pei , Philip S. Yu

Federated Learning (FL) systems are gaining popularity as a solution to training Machine Learning (ML) models from large-scale user data collected on personal devices (e.g., smartphones) without their raw data leaving the device. At the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Seong Joon Oh , Yang Zhang , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

The development of artificial intelligence has significantly transformed people's lives. However, it has also posed a significant threat to privacy and security, with numerous instances of personal information being exposed online and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Le Yang , Miao Tian , Duan Xin , Qishuo Cheng , Jiajian Zheng

To date publish of a giant social network jointly from different parties is an easier collaborative approach. Agencies and researchers who collect such social network data often have a compelling interest in allowing others to analyze the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Ajay Prasad , G. K. Panda , A. Mitra , Arjun Singh , Deepak Gour

With the identity information in face data more closely related to personal credit and property security, people pay increasing attention to the protection of face data privacy. In different tasks, people have various requirements for face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yuehua Cheng , Jing Dong

In this work we show that Tor is vulnerable to app deanonymization attacks on Android devices through network traffic analysis. For this purpose, we describe a general methodology for performing an attack that allows to deanonymize the apps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Emanuele Petagna , Giuseppe Laurenza , Claudio Ciccotelli , Leonardo Querzoni

Community detection in graphs is crucial for understanding the organization of nodes into densely connected clusters. While numerous strategies have been developed to identify these clusters, the success of community detection can lead to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junyuan Fang , Huimin Liu , Yueqi Peng , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

Social networks may contain privacy-sensitive information about individuals. The objective of the network anonymization problem is to alter a given social network dataset such that the number of anonymous nodes in the social graph is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Samuel Bonello , Rachel G. de Jong , Thomas H. W. Bäck , Frank W. Takes

Organizations are collecting vast amounts of data, but they often lack the capabilities needed to fully extract insights. As a result, they increasingly share data with external experts, such as analysts or researchers, to gain value from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yusi Wei , Hande Y. Benson , Joseph K. Agor , Muge Capan

Ensuring privacy of individuals is of paramount importance to social network analysis research. Previous work assessed anonymity in a network based on the non-uniqueness of a node's ego network. In this work, we show that this approach does…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

Federated Learning allows collaborative training without data sharing in settings where participants do not trust the central server and one another. Privacy can be further improved by ensuring that communication between the participants…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Qiongkai Xu , Trevor Cohn , Olga Ohrimenko