Self-Surveillance Privacy

Surveillance and Privacy

Recent social and technical developments are expanding surveillance by the government and private sector and intensifying privacy concerns, resulting in a surveillance-privacy dilemma. Governments establish surveillance schemes to fight terrorism and crime. Private organizations use profiling and data mining techniques to target marketing endeavors, to analyze customer behavior and monitor the ...

Communications and Privacy under Surveillance

Privacy Shielding against Mass Surveillance

Privacy Shielding against Mass Surveillance (PSMS) provides a step by step tactical approach to protecting the privacy of all the users of the internet from mass surveillance programs by the governments and other state agencies. Protection of one’s privacy is of prime importance and Privacy Shielding provides the right means against mass surveillance programs and from malicious users trying to ...

Privacy Preserving Surveillance and the Tracking- Paradox

Increasing capabilities of intelligent video surveillance systems impose new threats to privacy while, at the same time, offering opportunities for reducing the privacy invasiveness of surveillance measures as well as their selectivity. We show that aggregating more data about observed people does not necessarily lead to less privacy, but can increase the selectivity of surveillance measures. I...

Decentralized communication against surveillance and privacy violation

The Internet is one of the main communication platforms of our society. In many countries, communication contents and patterns are surveilled aiming to identify, punish or block undesired ideas. I focus with my research on fully decentralized and secure communication platforms which cannot be surveilled or switched off, on Android-based wireless mesh networks which support local communication t...