Open Data Release and Privacy Concerns: Complexity in Mitigating Vulnerability with Controlled Perturbation

The Role of State Privacy Regulations in Mitigating Internet Usersâ•Ž Privacy Concerns: A Multilevel Perspective

In the U.S., there is no comprehensive national law regulating the collection and use of personal information. As a response to the high level of privacy concerns among U.S. citizens and the currently limited regulations, states have enacted their own privacy laws over and above the principles of Fair Information Practices (FIP). In this exploratory study, we draw upon the privacy literature an...

Privacy Vulnerabilities with Background Information in Data Perturbation

The issue of data privacy is considered a significant hindrance to the development and industrial applications of database publishing and data mining techniques. Among many privacy-preserving methodologies, data perturbation is a popular technique for achieving a balance between data utility and information privacy. It is known that the attacker’s background information about the original data ...

Privacy Concerns of FOAF-Based Linked Data

In this position paper, we introduce a potential problem that arises with the emergence of publicly-available, FOAF-based linked data. The problem allows a spammer to send context-aware spam, which has a high clickthrough rate. Unlike online profiles within social networks, FOAF-based structured data provides a more reliable and accessible “food” for spammers and attackers. Current solutions (e...

Smart meter data: balancing consumer privacy concerns with legitimate applications

Analysis and Evaluation of Privacy Protection Behavior and Information Disclosure Concerns in Online Social Networks

Online Social Networks (OSN) becomes the largest infrastructure for social interactions like: making relationship, sharing personal experiences and service delivery. Nowadays social networks have been widely welcomed by people. Most of the researches about managing privacy protection within social networks sites (SNS), observes users as owner of their information. However, individuals cannot co...