All people treasure privacy, linking it to their concept of personal freedom and well-being. Unfortunately, the Internet’s great promise that it facilitates the collection, re-use and instantaneous transmission of information can, if not managed carefully, diminish personal privacy. It is therefore essential, in any application developed, to assure personal privacy in the networked environment,...

Health-related personal information is very privacy-sensitive. Online privacy policies inform Website users about the ways their personal information is gathered, processed and stored. In the light of increasing privacy concerns, privacy policies seem to be an important mechanism for increasing customer loyalty. However, in practice, consumers only rarely read privacy policies, possibly due to ...

Visual privacy protection, i.e., obfuscation of personal visual information in video surveillance is an important and increasingly popular research topic. However, while many datasets are available for testing performance of various video analytics, little to nothing exists for evaluation of visual privacy tools. Since surveillance and privacy protection have contradictory objectives, the desig...

In the big data era, personal data is, recently, perceived as a new oil or currency in the digital world. Both public and private sectors wish to use such data for studies and businesses. However, access to such data is restricted due to privacy issues. Seeing the commercial opportunities in gaps between demand and supply, the notion of personal data market is introduced. While there are severa...

This article presents a proposal for managing privacy in pervasive environments. These environments are capable of sensing personal information anywhere and at anytime. This implies a risk to privacy that might not be assumed if a clear and trustable privacy management model is not provided. However, since this kind of environments posses a set of highly heterogeneous sensing techniques, even b...

In the past few years, the growing number of personal information shared on the Web (through Web 2.0 applications) increased awareness regarding privacy and personal data. Recent studies showed that privacy in Social Networks is a major concern when user profiles are publicly shared, revealing that most users are aware of privacy settings. Most Social Networks provide privacy settings restricti...

BY PAUL M. SCHWARTZ AND DANIEL J. SOLOVE T he applicability and scope of many privacy laws around the world depend upon how the term ‘‘personal data’’ is defined. Personal data is often referred to as ‘‘personally identifiable information’’ (PII), and we use the terms interchangeably here. PII is foundational to any privacy regulatory regime in its role of a jurisdictional trigger. In the U.S.,...

This paper systematically discusses the security and privacy concerns for e-learning systems. A five-layer architecture of e-learning system is proposed. The security and privacy concerns are addressed respectively for five layers. This paper further examines the relationship among the security & privacy policy, the available security & privacy technology, and the degree of e-learning privacy &...

This paper presents a framework for personal agents that respect the privacy of the individual. We present some motivations and outline a framework for the use of personal agents and user profiling for information systems designed around web services. A key element of our approach in general is to consider the impact of user-profiling and autonomous agents on the user. One particular aspect, wh...

A feasibility analysis has been performed to study the applicability of privacy attributes with a developed wellness information model. Information privacy concerns specifically access to individually identifiable personal information and one's ability to control information about oneself. We carried out a user scenario walk-through of the privacy attributes related to the wellness components. ...