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Protecting privacy through metadata analysis

Sandra Deepthy Siby

Although encryption hides the content of communications from third parties, metadata, i.e., the information attached to the content (such as the size or timing of communication) can be a rich source of details and context. In this dissertation, we demonstr ...

EPFL2022

Flying in Private Mode: Understanding and Improving the Privacy ICAO Address Program

Location privacy of aircraft has recently gained attention as air traffic management was modernized using novel surveillance technologies. Business aviation circles and various military and government entities voiced serious concerns about automated and ub ...

AMER INST AERONAUTICS ASTRONAUTICS2021

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Information acquisition through crowdsensing with mobile agents is a popular way to collect data, especially in the context of smart cities where the deployment of dedicated data collectors is expensive and ineffective. It requires efficient information el ...

Springer2021

Interdependent and Multi-Subject Privacy: Threats, Analysis and Protection

Alexandra-Mihaela Olteanu

In Alan Westin's generally accepted definition of privacy, he describes it as an individual's right 'to control, edit, manage, and delete information about them[selves] and decide when, how, and to what extent information is communicated to others.' There ...

EPFL2019

On (The Lack Of) Location Privacy in Crowdsourcing Applications

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Carmela González Troncoso

Crowdsourcing enables application developers to benefit from large and diverse datasets at a low cost. Specifically, mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) leverages users' devices as sensors to perform geo-located data collection. The collection of geo-located data r ...

USENIX ASSOC2019

Over a third of the world's population owns a smartphone. As generic computing devices that support a large and heterogeneous collection of mobile applications (apps), smartphones provide a plethora of functionalities and services to billions of users. B ...

EPFL2019

Hashtag has emerged as a widely used concept of popular culture and campaigns, but its implications on people's privacy have not been investigated so far. In this paper, we present the first systematic analysis of privacy issues induced by hashtags. We con ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Quantifying Interdependent Privacy Risks with Location Data

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Reza Shokri, Alexandra-Mihaela Olteanu

Co-location information about users is increasingly available online. For instance, mobile users more and more frequently report their co-locations with other users in the messages and in the pictures they post on social networking websites by tagging the ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

"If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them'': A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous

Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, have growing ecosystems of 3rd party apps that are designed to work with users’ cloud files. Such apps often request full access to users’ files, including files shared with collaborators. Hence, whene ...

2017

On the Privacy Implications of Location Semantics

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Urs Beda Hengartner

Mobile users increasingly make use of location-based online services enabled by localization systems. Not only do they share their locations to obtain contextual services in return (e.g., 'nearest restaurant'), but they also share, with their friends, info ...

2016