The landscape of the World Wide Web with all its versatile services heavily relies on the disclosure of private user information. Service providers collecting more and more of these personal user data pose a growing privacy threat for users. Addressing user concerns privacy-enhancing technologies emerged. One goal of these technologies is to enable users to improve the control over their person...

In this paper, we describe EPFL privacy protection tool submitted to the MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces and other personal items of people in the provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. In the privacy protection tool, we used a combination of reversible privacy protection filter based on geometric warping transformation, rand...

Territorial privacy is an old concept for privacy of the personal space dating back to the 19th century. Despite its former relevance, territorial privacy has been neglected in recent years, while privacy research and legislation mainly focused on the issue of information privacy. However, with the prospect of smart and ubiquitous environments, territorial privacy deserves new attention. Walls,...

Today, the world are moving towards e-commerce application in completing their daily jobs. An ecommerce application becomes the preferred medium to complete the day’s tasks. Electronic commerce or ecommerce is a potentially growing business for today’s market. Basically, online shopping eliminates conventional purchase approach which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Through cyber space, o...

Internet is quickly becoming the public electronic marketplace. Though the internet has revolutionized retail and direct marketing, the full scale incorporation and acceptance of the internet marketplace with the modern business is limited. One major inhibition shown by the internet buyers is in the form of lack of confidence in the newly developed marketing machinery/technology and concern rel...

1. Introduction Privacy plays a major role in the relationship between companies and Internet users. However, results from consumer surveys indicate that the communication of privacy on the Internet has so far not yet been addressed effectively enough to alleviate consumer concerns: 64% of Internet users indicated having decided in the past not to use a website, or not to purchase something fro...

Privacy in cloud computing is at the moment simply a promise to be kept by the software service providers. Users are neither able to control the disclosure of personal data to third parties nor to check if the software service providers have followed the agreed-upon privacy policy. Therefore, disclosure of the users‘ data to the software service providers of the cloud raises privacy risks. In t...

Privacy-enhancing technologies can be used to enhance the privacy of individuals who interact with information processing systems. This paper considers such technologies that can be used by the organisation to safeguard personal information it processes. The paper focuses on how access control could be used to protect the individual against misuse of personal data inside the organisation. More ...

Privacy has become a significant concern in modern society as personal information about individuals is increasingly collected, used, and shared, often using digital technologies, by a wide range of organizations. To mitigate privacy concerns, organizations are required to respect privacy laws in regulated sectors (e.g., HIPAA in healthcare, GLBA in financial sector) and to adhere to self-decla...