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The Internet of Things (IoT) devices are rapidly increasing in popularity, with more individuals using Internet-connected devices that continuously monitor their activities. This work explores privacy concerns and expectations of end-users…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Piero Romare , Victor Morel , Farzaneh Karegar , Simone Fischer-Hübner

This paper considers the problem of the private release of sample means of speed values from traffic datasets. Our key contribution is the development of user-level differentially private algorithms that incorporate carefully chosen…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Anshoo Tandon , Prajjwal Gupta , Aditya Vikram Singh , Novoneel Chakraborty , Abhay Sharma

Huge volume of data from domain specific applications such as medical, financial, telephone, shopping records and individuals are regularly generated. Sharing of these data is proved to be beneficial for data mining application. Since data…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-03-21 Hitesh Chhinkaniwala , Sanjay Garg

Privacy concerns have become increasingly critical in modern AI and data science applications, where sensitive information is collected, analyzed, and shared across diverse domains such as healthcare, finance, and mobility. While prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ziyao Cui , Minxing Zhang , Jian Pei

Synthetic data has been considered a better privacy-preserving alternative to traditionally sanitized data across various applications. However, a recent article challenges this notion, stating that synthetic data does not provide a better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Fatima Jahan Sarmin , Atiquer Rahman Sarkar , Yang Wang , Noman Mohammed

Data publishing under privacy constraints can be achieved with mechanisms that add randomness to data points when released to an untrusted party, thereby decreasing the data's utility. In this paper, we analyze this privacy-utility tradeoff…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Leonhard Grosse , Sara Saeidian , Tobias Oechtering

This paper adopts Arimoto's $\alpha$-Mutual Information as a tunable privacy measure, in a privacy-preserving data release setting that aims to prevent disclosing private data to adversaries. By fine-tuning the privacy metric, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 MirHamed Jafarzadeh Asl , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Fabrice Labeau

Devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly becoming ubiquitous across modern homes, workplaces, and other social environments. While these devices provide users with extensive functionality, they pose significant privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Yasasvi Hari , Rohit Singh , Kizito Nyuytiymbiy , David Butera

The prevalence of e-commerce has made detailed customers' personal information readily accessible to retailers, and this information has been widely used in pricing decisions. When involving personalized information, how to protect the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Xi Chen , David Simchi-Levi , Yining Wang

Participatory Sensing is an emerging computing paradigm that enables the distributed collection of data by self-selected participants. It allows the increasing number of mobile phone users to share local knowledge acquired by their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Emiliano De Cristofaro , Claudio Soriente

Advances in sensing, networking, and actuation technologies have resulted in the IoT wave that is expected to revolutionize all aspects of modern society. This paper focuses on the new challenges of privacy that arise in IoT in the context…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Nisha Panwar , Shantanu Sharma , Guoxi Wang , Sharad Mehrotra , Nalini Venkatasubramanian

In the digital era, users share their personal data with service providers to obtain some utility, e.g., access to high-quality services. Yet, the induced information flows raise privacy and integrity concerns. Consequently, cautious users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Sylvain Chatel , Apostolos Pyrgelis , Juan R. Troncoso-Pastoriza , Jean-Pierre Hubaux

In opinion polls, the public frequently claim to value their privacy. However, individuals often seem to overlook the principle, contributing to a disparity labelled the `Privacy Paradox'. The growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Meredydd Williams , Jason R. C. Nurse , Sadie Creese

IoT Trigger-Action Platforms (TAPs) typically offer coarse-grained permission controls. Even when fine-grained controls are available, users are likely overwhelmed by the complexity of setting privacy preferences. This paper contributes to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Piero Romare , Farzaneh Karegar , Simone Fischer-Hübner

Recently, a wide range of smart devices are deployed in a variety of environments to improve the quality of human life. One of the important IoT-based applications is smart homes for healthcare, especially for elders. IoT-based smart homes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Ming-Chang Lee , Jia-Chun Lin , Olaf Owe

Sharing real-time aggregate statistics of private data is of great value to the public to perform data mining for understanding important phenomena, such as Influenza outbreaks and traffic congestion. However, releasing time-series data…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Liyue Fan , Li Xiong

Implicit authentication consists of a server authenticating a user based on the user's usage profile, instead of/in addition to relying on something the user explicitly knows (passwords, private keys, etc.). While implicit authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Qianhong Wu , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Privacy-preserving data release is about disclosing information about useful data while retaining the privacy of sensitive data. Assuming that the sensitive data is threatened by a brute-force adversary, we define Guessing Leakage as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Seyed Ali Osia , Borzoo Rassouli , Hamed Haddadi , Hamid R. Rabiee , Deniz Gündüz

We study statistical risk minimization problems under a privacy model in which the data is kept confidential even from the learner. In this local privacy framework, we establish sharp upper and lower bounds on the convergence rates of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-11 John C. Duchi , Michael I. Jordan , Martin J. Wainwright

Differential privacy is a strong notion for privacy that can be used to prove formal guarantees, in terms of a privacy budget, $\epsilon$, about how much information is leaked by a mechanism. However, implementations of privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans