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Most privacy regulations function as a passive defensive shield that users must wield themselves. Users are incessantly asked to "opt-in" or "opt-out" of data collection, forced to make defensive decisions whose consequences are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yumou Wei , John Carney , John Stamper , Nancy Belmont

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly integrated into various aspects of daily life, concerns about privacy and ethical accountability are gaining prominence. This study explores stakeholder perspectives on privacy in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Sandhya Joshi

Mental health disorders create profound personal and societal burdens, yet conventional diagnostics are resource-intensive and limit accessibility. Advances in artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing and multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Aishik Mandal , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Iryna Gurevych

The rapid rise of IoT and Big Data has facilitated copious data driven applications to enhance our quality of life. However, the omnipresent and all-encompassing nature of the data collection can generate privacy concerns. Hence, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Mert Al , Semih Yagli , Sun-Yuan Kung

The advent of Generative AI has marked a significant milestone in artificial intelligence, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in generating realistic images, texts, and data patterns. However, these advancements come with heightened…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Dawen Zhang , Boming Xia , Yue Liu , Xiwei Xu , Thong Hoang , Zhenchang Xing , Mark Staples , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

Defining privacy and related notions such as Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is a central notion in computer science and other fields. The theoretical, technological, and application aspects of PII require a framework that provides…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sabah S. Al-Fedaghi

Privacy research has attracted wide attention as individuals worry that their private data can be easily leaked during interactions with smart devices, social platforms, and AI applications. Computer science researchers, on the other hand,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Haoran Li , Wei Fan , Yulin Chen , Jiayang Cheng , Tianshu Chu , Xuebing Zhou , Peizhao Hu , Yangqiu Song

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. However, alongside all its advancements, problems have also emerged, such as privacy violations, security issues and model fairness. Differential privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Wei Wang , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

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…

To sanitize specific concepts from imagery and text, privacy mechanisms with formal guarantees are often eschewed in practice in favor of more intuitive techniques. AI-based sanitization is poised to grow in popularity because it can work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 George Bissias , Eugene Bagdasarian , Brian Neil Levine

Theoretical and applied research into privacy encompasses an incredibly broad swathe of differing approaches, emphasis and aims. This work introduces a new quantitative notion of privacy that is both contextual and specific. We argue that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Cameron Bell , Timothy Johnston , Antoine Luciano , Christian P Robert

It is known that big data analytics and AI pose a threat to privacy, and that some of this is due to some kind of "black box problem" in AI. I explain how this becomes a problem in the context of justification for judgments and actions.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Vincent C. Müller

Many anonymous communication networks (ACNs) with different privacy goals have been developed. However, there are no accepted formal definitions of privacy and ACNs often define their goals and adversary models ad hoc. However, for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Christiane Kuhn , Martin Beck , Stefan Schiffner , Eduard Jorswieck , Thorsten Strufe

Many assumptions that underpin human concepts of identity do not hold for machine minds that can be copied, edited, or simulated. We argue that there exist many different coherent identity boundaries (e.g.\ instance, model, persona), and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Raymond Douglas , Jan Kulveit , Ondrej Havlicek , Theia Pearson-Vogel , Owen Cotton-Barratt , David Duvenaud

Innovations in AI have focused primarily on the questions of "what" and "how"-algorithms for finding patterns in web searches, for instance-without adequate attention to the possible harms (such as privacy, bias, or manipulation) and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Suresh Venkatasubramanian , Nadya Bliss , Helen Nissenbaum , Melanie Moses

As artificial intelligence continues its unprecedented global expansion, accompanied by a proliferation of benefits, an increasing apprehension about the privacy and security implications of AI-enabled systems emerges. The pivotal question…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Daria Korobenko , Anastasija Nikiforova , Rajesh Sharma

Privacy is a human right. It ensures that individuals are free to engage in discussions, participate in groups, and form relationships online or offline without fear of their data being inappropriately harvested, analyzed, or otherwise used…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Keenan Jones , Fatima Zahrah , Jason R. C. Nurse

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches are often criticized for their inherent bias and for their lack of control, accountability, and transparency. Consequently, regulatory bodies struggle with containing this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Benjamin Roth , Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo , Yuxi Xia , Saskia Kaltenbrunner , Christoph Korab

The ability of machines to comprehend and produce language that is similar to that of humans has revolutionized sectors like customer service, healthcare, and finance thanks to the quick advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Swetha S , Ram Sundhar K Shaju , Rakshana M , Ganesh R , Balavedhaa S , Thiruvaazhi U

The advent of artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of information technology. With AIGC, it can be effortless to generate high-quality data that is challenging for the public to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Tao Wang , Yushu Zhang , Shuren Qi , Ruoyu Zhao , Zhihua Xia , Jian Weng