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As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in critical societal functions, the need for robust red teaming methodologies continues to grow. In this forum piece, we examine emerging approaches to automating AI red…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Alice Qian Zhang , Jina Suh , Mary L. Gray , Hong Shen

AI-based face recognition, i.e., the re-identification of individuals within images, is an already well established technology for video surveillance, for user authentication, for tagging photos of friends, etc. This paper demonstrates that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Stefan Vamosi , Michael Platzer , Thomas Reutterer

This paper aims at answering the following two questions in privacy-preserving data analysis and publishing: What formal privacy guarantee (if any) does $k$-anonymization provide? How to benefit from the adversary's uncertainty about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ninghui Li , Wahbeh Qardaji , Dong Su

Text sanitization is the task of redacting a document to mask all occurrences of (direct or indirect) personal identifiers, with the goal of concealing the identity of the individual(s) referred in it. In this paper, we consider a two-step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Anthi Papadopoulou , Pierre Lison , Mark Anderson , Lilja Øvrelid , Ildikó Pilán

Person Re-Identification (Re-ID) is an important problem in computer vision-based surveillance applications, in which one aims to identify a person across different surveillance photographs taken from different cameras having varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Mustafa Ebrahim Chasmai , Tamajit Banerjee

Data protection algorithms are becoming increasingly important to support modern business needs for facilitating data sharing and data monetization. Anonymization is an important step before data sharing. Several organizations leverage on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Manish Kesarwani , Akshar Kaul , Stefano Braghin , Naoise Holohan , Spiros Antonatos

Person Re-Identification (re-ID) aims at retrieving images of the same person taken by different cameras. A challenge for re-ID is the performance preservation when a model is used on data of interest (target data) which belong to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Fabian Dubourvieux , Romaric Audigier , Angelique Loesch , Samia Ainouz , Stephane Canu

Nowadays, it is a common practice to protect various types of statistical data before publishing them for different researches. For instance, when conducting extensive demographic surveys such as national census, the collected data should…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-06-21 Dan Tavrov , Oleg Chertov

Over the last decade, proliferation of various online platforms and their increasing adoption by billions of users have heightened the privacy risk of a user enormously. In fact, security researchers have shown that sparse microdata…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Baichuan Zhang , Noman Mohammed , Vachik Dave , Mohammad Al Hasan

System logs are a common source of monitoring data for analyzing computing systems' behavior. Due to the complexity of modern computing systems and the large size of collected monitoring data, automated analysis mechanisms are required.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tom Richard Vargis , Siavash Ghiasvand

Red-teaming, where adversarial prompts are crafted to expose harmful behaviors and assess risks, offers a dynamic approach to surfacing underlying stereotypical bias in large language models. Because such subtle harms are best recognized by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sieun Kim , Yeeun Jo , Sungmin Na , Hyunseung Lim , Eunchae Lee , Yu Min Choi , Soohyun Cho , Hwajung Hong

Big Data is used by data miner for analysis purpose which may contain sensitive information. During the procedures it raises certain privacy challenges for researchers. The existing privacy preserving methods use different algorithms that…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Saira Khan , Khalid Iqbal , Safi Faizullah , Muhammad Fahad , Jawad Ali , Waqas Ahmed

Distributed data analysis without revealing the individual data has recently attracted significant attention in several applications. A collaborative data analysis through sharing dimensionality reduced representations of data has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Akira Imakura , Anna Bogdanova , Takaya Yamazoe , Kazumasa Omote , Tetsuya Sakurai

Red teams simulate adversaries and conduct sophisticated attacks against defenders without informing them about used tactics in advance. These interactive cyber exercises are highly beneficial to assess and improve the security posture of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Max Landauer , Klaus Mayer , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger , Manuel Kern

Person re-identification (ReId), a crucial task in surveillance, involves matching individuals across different camera views. The advent of Deep Learning, especially supervised techniques like Convolutional Neural Networks and Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Andrea Asperti , Salvatore Fiorilla , Simone Nardi , Lorenzo Orsini

In this work, we focus on protection against identity disclosure in the publication of sparse multidimensional data. Existing multidimensional anonymization techniquesa) protect the privacy of users either by altering the set of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Manolis Terrovitis , John Liagouris , Nikos Mamoulis , Spiros Skiadopoulos

Anonymization is a foundational principle of data privacy regulation, yet its practical application remains riddled with ambiguity and inconsistency. This paper introduces the concept of anonymity-washing -- the misrepresentation of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Szivia Lestyán , William Letrone , Ludovica Robustelli , Gergely Biczók

Background: In the context of ongoing debate over data confidentiality versus shared use of research data, as raised following the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, we seek to find alternate techniques that can balance these two…

Applications · Statistics 2016-06-20 Paramita Saha-Chaudhuri , Clarice Weinberg

Automated red teaming is an effective method for identifying misaligned behaviors in large language models (LLMs). Existing approaches, however, often focus primarily on improving attack success rates while overlooking the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Jinchuan Zhang , Yan Zhou , Yaxin Liu , Ziming Li , Songlin Hu

In 2011 Bhaskar et al. pointed out that in many cases one can ensure sufficient level of privacy without adding noise by utilizing adversarial uncertainty. Informally speaking, this observation comes from the fact that if at least a part of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Krzysztof Grining , Marek Klonowski