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In this work, we provide an industry research view for approaching the design, deployment, and operation of trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference systems. Such systems provide customers with timely, informed, and customized…

The design and development process for Internet of Things (IoT) applications is more complicated than for desktop, mobile, or web applications. IoT applications require both software and hardware to work together across multiple different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Charith Perera , Mahmoud Barhamgi , Massimo Vecchio

The design and development process for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications is more complicated than that for desktop, mobile, or web applications. First, IoT applications require both software and hardware to work together across…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Nada Alhirabi , Omer Rana , Charith Perera

Individuals increasingly face an overwhelming number of tasks and decisions. To cope with the new reality, there is growing research interest in developing intelligent agents that can effectively assist people across various aspects of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Meihe Xu , Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux , Arianna Rossi

In this study, we explore the effectiveness of persuasive messages endorsing the adoption of a privacy protection technology (IoT Inspector) tailored to individuals' regulatory focus (promotion or prevention). We explore if and how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky , Yao Li , Hichang Cho , Danny Yuxing Huang , Kaileigh A. Byrne , Bart Knijnenburg , Oded Nov

As people across the world become increasingly aware of how their privacy is compromised in this digital era, the field of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, or PETs, has boomed. The first workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technology was in 2000,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Sarah Cline , Jacob Aronoff

Privacy is an individual choice to determine which personal details can be collected, used and shared. Individual consent and transparency are the core tenets for earning customers trust and this motivates the organizations to adopt privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Abhinav Palia , Rajat Tandon , Carl Mathis

We present a technical case study on the Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for Public Health Challenge, a collaborative effort to safely leverage sensitive private sector data for social impact, specifically pandemic management. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Avinash Laddha , Danil Mikhailov , Uyi Stewart

We present the design and design rationale for the user interfaces for Privacy Enhancements for Android (PE for Android). These UIs are built around two core ideas, namely that developers should explicitly declare the purpose of why…

Differential privacy is a popular privacy-enhancing technology that has been deployed both in industry and government agencies. Unfortunately, existing explanations of differential privacy fail to set accurate privacy expectations for data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mary Anne Smart , Priyanka Nanayakkara , Rachel Cummings , Gabriel Kaptchuk , Elissa Redmiles

Household robots boasting mobility, more sophisticated sensors, and powerful processing models have become increasingly prevalent in the commercial market. However, these features may expose users to unwanted privacy risks, including…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jennica Li , Shirley Zhang , Dakota Sullivan , Bengisu Cagiltay , Heather Kirkorian , Bilge Mutlu , Kassem Fawaz

Existing work on privacy by design mostly focus on technologies rather than methodologies and on components rather than architectures. In this paper, we advocate the idea that privacy by design should also be addressed at the architectural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Thibaud Antignac , Daniel Le Métayer

In this report, we present an approach to enhance informed consent for the processing of personal data. The approach relies on a privacy policy language used to express, compare and analyze privacy policies. We describe a tool that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Raúl Pardo , Daniel Le Métayer

User privacy concerns are widely regarded as a key obstacle to the success of modern smart cyber-physical systems. In this paper, we analyse, through an example, some of the requirements that future data collection architectures of these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Mahmoud Barhamgi , Charith Perera , Chirine Ghedira , Djamal Benslimane

The massive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) as a network of interconnected entities [18], brings up new challenges in terms of privacy and security requirements to the traditional software engineering domain [4]. To protect the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Parvaneh Shayegh , Vijayanta Jain , Amin Rabinia , Sepideh Ghanavati

The increasing prevalence of large-scale data collection in modern society represents a potential threat to individual privacy. Addressing this threat, for example through privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), requires a rigorous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Alexander Ziller , Tamara Mueller , Rickmer Braren , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

The steady reports of privacy invasions online paints a picture of the Internet growing into a more dangerous place. This is supported by reports of the potential scale for online harms facilitated by the mass deployment of online…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Kovila P. L. Coopamootoo

Current day software development relies heavily on the use of service architectures and on agile iterative development methods to design, implement, and deploy systems. These practices result in systems made up of multiple services that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Blagovesta Kostova , Seda Gürses , Carmela Troncoso

Privacy personas capture the differences in user segments with respect to one's knowledge, behavioural patterns, level of self-efficacy, and perception of the importance of privacy protection. Modelling these differences is essential for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Olena Hrynenko , Andrea Cavallaro

Harmful repercussions from sharing sensitive or personal data can hamper institutions' willingness to engage in data exchange. Thus, institutions consider Authenticity Enhancing Technologies (AETs) and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Kaja Schmidt , Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Alexander Mühle , Christoph Meinel