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Strong Privacy for RFID Systems from Plaintext-Aware Encryption

Serge Vaudenay, Khaled Ouafi

he Vaudenay model for RFID privacy from Asiacrypt 2007 suffers from the impossibility to address strong privacy. It has however been shown by Ng et al. at ESORICS 2008 that the impossibility result leads to no practical threat, so that the definition from ...

Springer2012

Crowdsourcing Approach for Evaluation of Privacy Filters in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi

Extensive adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of the daily life, alarms the concerned public about the increasing invasion into personal privacy. To address these concerns, many tools have been proposed for protection of personal privacy ...

2012

MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy Task: Applying Transform-domain Scrambling to Automatically Detected Faces

Touradj Ebrahimi, Aleksei Triastcyn

In this paper, we describe our approach and discuss evaluation results for the MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces of people visible in provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. We also additio ...

2012

Privacy Decision Making in the Travel Panopticon

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) have the potential to increase road-network capacities, reduce congestion and pollution, create shorter and more predictable journey times and significantly improve road-user safety. However, these technologies will also ...

2012

Evaluation of Visual privacy Filters Impact on Video Surveillance Intelligibility

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone

Since privacy issues are becoming important with growth of the video surveillance, many tools are proposed for protection of personal privacy in the video. However, little is understood regarding the effectiveness of such tools and their effect on the unde ...

2012

Adaptive Personalized Privacy in Participatory Sensing

Karl Aberer, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Rammohan Narendula, Berker Agir

The participatory sensing paradigm has interesting applications, e.g. electrosmog/air-pollution monitoring, carbon footprint estimation, etc., but raises serious privacy concerns. Existing static privacy-enabling approaches offer no privacy guarantees, whi ...

2012

Tell Me Your Ads and I'll Tell You Who You Are

Alexandra-Mihaela Olteanu

Google AdSense, one of the most popular Online Advertise Networks, uses a mix of two techniques to deliver ads: contextual ads and behavioral ads, but it is not clear when or how much of the both they actually use. In this work, we raise several concerns r ...

2012

When Whereabouts is No Longer Thereabouts

Julien Freudiger

Modern mobile devices are fast, programmable and feature localization and wireless capabilities. These technological advances notably facilitate mobile access to Internet, development of mobile applications and sharing of personal information, such as loca ...

EPFL2011

Quantifying Location Privacy

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos

It is a well-known fact that the progress of personal communication devices leads to serious concerns about privacy in general, and location privacy in particular. As a response to these issues, a number of Location-Privacy Protection Mechanisms (LPPMs) ha ...

Ieee Computer Soc Press, Customer Service Center, Po Box 3014, 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, Ca 90720-1264 Usa2011

Evaluating the Privacy Risk of Location-Based Services

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Reza Shokri

In modern mobile networks, users increasingly share their location with third-parties in return for location-based services. In this way, users obtain services customized to their location. Yet, such communications leak location information about users. Ev ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011