A s society increasingly relies on digitally stored and accessed information, supporting the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of this information is crucial. We need systems in which users can securely store critical information, ensuring that it persists, is continuously accessible, cannot be destroyed, and is kept confidential. A survivable storage system would provide these guara...

The usual approach to generate k-anonymous data sets, based on generalization of the quasi-identifier attributes, does not provide any control on the variability of the confidential attributes within the k-anonymous groups. If the latter variability is too small, privacy is not sufficiently protected, while, for large variabilities, data utility is substantially damaged. Some refinements to the...

Humanity generates considerable information using its devices – smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Users upload images to different platforms, such as social networks, messengers, web services other applications, which greatly endanger their personal information. User privacy has been exploited on the Internet for a long time. Interested parties lure potential customers into trap of offers age,...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and predictors of self-medication with analgesics among senior medical students and interns in King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 504 participants in 2013. A multistage stratified random sampling was used. A confidential, anonymous & self-administered questionnaire was used to collec...

In the early 1980s, conservative politicians in the United States argued that the federal government was promoting promiscuity by providing teens with confidential access to government-funded family planning services. Claiming the problem was not that young women were getting pregnant but that they were having sex, they promised a new national policy-one that would stress self-discipline and fa...