The rapid deployment of privacy-destroying technologies by governments and businesses threatens to make informational privacy obsolete. The first part of this article describes a range of current technologies to which the law has yet to respond effectively. These include: routine collection of transactional data, growing automated surveillance in public places, deployment of facial recognition ...

In this paper the author sets out to analyze and critique the commodification of privacy model advanced by Kenneth Laudon. Situating this marketbased model of privacy within the context of the resurgence of neo-classical economics of the last two decades, the author asserts that contemporary economic models, and in particular the intellectual property regime, have difficulty in adequately conce...

Our solution to the MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy Task [4] is a privacy-preserving video filter that is able to maintain a high intelligibility level in surveillance systems while providing a reasonable privacy protection level to monitored people and a pleasant view to observers. This paper describes our context-aware method that is based on cartooning and pixelation effects. Subjective evalua...

The proliferation of new technologies and their increasing use in many aspects of our lives pose a number of threats to privacy; digital networks, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, automated profiling, genetics, radio frequency identification (RFID), wiretapping, closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras, digital rights management systems and similar technologies challenge the traditio...

This paper uses data from the MIT digital currency experiment to shed light on consumer behavior regarding commercial, public and government surveillance. The setting allows us to explore the apparent contradiction that many cryptocurrencies offer people the chance to escape government surveillance, but do so by making transactions themselves public on a distributed ledger (a ‘blockchain’). We ...

Safety, efficiency, privacy, and cybersecurity can be achieved jointly in self-organizing networks of communicating vehicles of various automated driving levels. The underlying approach, solutions and novel results are briefly exposed. We explain why we are faced with a crucial choice regarding motorized society and cyber surveillance. Keywords—vehicular networks, safety, privacy, cybersecurity...

Remote accessibility to video cameras, face recognition software, and searchable image and video databases enable automated video surveillance. The same technologies and features enabling advanced functionalities facilitate as well the misuse of a surveillance system and can lead to the infringement of the privacy of an individual. Examples of misuse are voyeurism and the unauthorized collectio...

This article tackles one of the latest—but nonetheless baffling—displays public apathy towards surveillance: that much Israeli decision to recruit Security Agency (Shin Bet) do COVID-19 contact tracing during ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The case a secretive state agency being authorized surveillance on its citizens for strictly non-security-related matter seems realize many dangers surveillan...

During the last decade in particular the levels of critical engagement with the challenges posed for privacy by the new technologies have been on the rise. Many scholars have continued to explore the big themes in a manner which typifies the complex interplay between privacy, identity, security and surveillance. This level of engagement is both welcome and timely, particularly in a climate of g...

In this paper, a pixel-based method for personal anonymisation in visual surveillance applications, is presented. The proposed method tries to tackle the problem of balancing the intelligibility with privacy, by including some form of contextual information in the anonymisation process. Objective and subjective evaluations show promising results in intelligibility and appropriateness, but they ...