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Generative models are subject to overfitting and thus may potentially leak sensitive information from the training data. In this work. we investigate the privacy risks that can potentially arise from the use of generative adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Abdallah Alshantti , Adil Rasheed , Frank Westad

Re-identification algorithms are used in data privacy to measure disclosure risk. They model the situation in which an adversary attacks a published database by means of linking the information of this adversary with the database. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Vicenç Torra , Klara Stokes

Social graphs derived from online social interactions contain a wealth of information that is nowadays extensively used by both industry and academia. However, as social graphs contain sensitive information, they need to be properly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yang Zhang , Mathias Humbert , Bartlomiej Surma , Praveen Manoharan , Jilles Vreeken , Michael Backes

Mining health data can lead to faster medical decisions, improvement in the quality of treatment, disease prevention, reduced cost, and it drives innovative solutions within the healthcare sector. However, health data is highly sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Jens Rauch , Matthias Katzensteiner , Megha Khosla

In this paper, we present a stealthy and effective attack that exposes privacy vulnerabilities in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by inferring private links within graph-structured data. Focusing on the inductive setting where new nodes join…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Oualid Zari , Javier Parra-Arnau , Ayşe Ünsal , Melek Önen

Anonymized data is highly valuable to both businesses and researchers. A large body of research has however shown the strong limits of the de-identification release-and-forget model, where data is anonymized and shared. This has led to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Andrea Gadotti , Florimond Houssiau , Luc Rocher , Benjamin Livshits , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

With the introduction of large-scale network data, including population-scale social networks, techniques for privacy-aware sharing of network data become increasingly important. While existing $k$-anonymity approaches can model different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

Authorship identification has proven unsettlingly effective in inferring the identity of the author of an unsigned document, even when sensitive personal information has been carefully omitted. In the digital era, individuals leave a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Haining Wang

Recent work has demonstrated significant anonymity vulnerabilities in Bitcoin's networking stack. In particular, the current mechanism for broadcasting Bitcoin transactions allows third-party observers to link transactions to the IP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Giulia Fanti , Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan , Surya Bakshi , Bradley Denby , Shruti Bhargava , Andrew Miller , Pramod Viswanath

This study investigates the privacy risks associated with text embeddings, focusing on the scenario where attackers cannot access the original embedding model. Contrary to previous research requiring direct model access, we explore a more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yu-Hsiang Huang , Yuche Tsai , Hsiang Hsiao , Hong-Yi Lin , Shou-De Lin

To promote secure and private artificial intelligence (SPAI), we review studies on the model security and data privacy of DNNs. Model security allows system to behave as intended without being affected by malicious external influences that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Ho Bae , Jaehee Jang , Dahuin Jung , Hyemi Jang , Heonseok Ha , Hyungyu Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has been widely adopted to protect user privacy in decentralized data collection. However, recent studies have revealed that LDP protocols are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, where malicious users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Ting-Wei Liao , Chih-Hsun Lin , Yu-Lin Tsai , Takao Murakami , Chia-Mu Yu , Jun Sakuma , Chun-Ying Huang , Hiroaki Kikuchi

Privacy is one of the essential pillars for the widespread adoption of blockchains, but public blockchains are transparent by nature. Modern analytics techniques can easily subdue the pseudonymity feature of a blockchain user. Some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Amit Chaudhary , Hamish Ivey-Law

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protocols enable an untrusted server to perform privacy-preserving, federated data analytics. Various LDP protocols have been developed for different types of data such as categorical data, numerical data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yongji Wu , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

With the rapid increase of threats on the Internet, people are continuously seeking privacy and anonymity. Services such as Bitcoin and Tor were introduced to provide anonymity for online transactions and Web browsing. Due to its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Husam Al Jawaheri , Mashael Al Sabah , Yazan Boshmaf , Aiman Erbad

With billions of personal images being generated from social media and cameras of all sorts on a daily basis, security and privacy are unprecedentedly challenged. Although extensive attempts have been made, existing face image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Tao Li , Lei Lin

In this paper, we investigate how attackers can discover sensitive information embedded within databases by exploiting inference rules. We demonstrate the inadequacy of naively applied existing state of the art differential privacy (DP)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yasmine Hayder , Adrien Boiret , Cédric Eichler , Benjamin Nguyen

Privacy issues on social networks have been extensively discussed in recent years. The user identity linkage (UIL) task, aiming at finding corresponding users across different social networks, would be a threat to privacy if unethically…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Jiangli Shao , Yongqing Wang , Boshen Shi , Hao Gao , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Many outdoor autonomous mobile platforms require more human identity anonymized data to power their data-driven algorithms. The human identity anonymization should be robust so that less manual intervention is needed, which remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Hengyuan Zhang , Jing-Yan Liao , David Paz , Henrik I. Christensen

We propose a novel architecture which is able to automatically anonymize faces in images while retaining the original data distribution. We ensure total anonymization of all faces in an image by generating images exclusively on privacy-safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Håkon Hukkelås , Rudolf Mester , Frank Lindseth