Publications de Farid Movahedi Naini

Privacy-Preserving Function Computation by Exploitation of Friendships in Social Networks

Martin Vetterli, Patrick Thiran, Farid Movahedi Naini, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan

We study the problem of privacy-preserving computation of functions of data that belong to users in a social network under the assumption that users are willing to share their private data with trusted friends in the network. We demonstrate that such trust ...

Ieee2014

Population Sensing Using Mobile Devices : a Statistical Opportunity or a Privacy Nightmare?

Farid Movahedi Naini

In our daily lives, our mobile phones sense our movements and interactions via a rich set of embedded sensors such as a GPS, Bluetooth, accelerometers, and microphones. This enables us to use mobile phones as agents for collecting spatio-temporal data. The ...

EPFL2014

De-anonymizing Private Data by Matching Statistics

Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan, Farid Movahedi Naini

2013

Population Size Estimation Using a Few Individuals as Agents

Martin Vetterli, Patrick Thiran, Olivier Dousse, Farid Movahedi Naini

We conduct an experiment where ten attendees of an open-air music festival are acting as Bluetooth probes. We then construct a parametric statistical model to estimate the total number of visible Bluetooth devices in the festival area. By comparing our est ...

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