'Regulating' Online Data Privacy

Regulating genetic privacy in the online health information era.

As the clinical implications of the genetic components of disease come to be better understood, there is likely to be a significant increase in the volume of genetic information held within clinical records. As patient health care records, in turn, come on-line as part of broader health information networks, there is likely to be considerable pressure in favour of special laws protecting geneti...

Data Privacy in Online Social Networks

The ever increasing volume of available social network datasets creates the need to derive anonymization methods that permit useful analysis of such datasets without disclosing any sensitive information regarding their users. In this article, we review the problem of privacy in online social networks focusing on related models and algorithms.

A centralized privacy-preserving framework for online social networks

There are some critical privacy concerns in the current online social networks (OSNs). Users' information is disclosed to different entities that they were not supposed to access. Furthermore, the notion of friendship is inadequate in OSNs since the degree of social relationships between users dynamically changes over the time. Additionally, users may define similar privacy settings for their f...

Regulating Privacy by Design

Privacy Implications of Online Consumer-Activity Data: An Empirical Study

Web users allow online organisations to collect vast amounts of information about them and their activities, often in exchange for free services. But now there is a growing expectation that this users’ data, generally called consumer data, should be given back to the users who helped create them so that it can be exploited for their benefit. In addition, there is a realisation that such a relea...