Privacy is a software quality that is closely related to security. The main difference is that security properties aim at the protection of assets that are crucial for the considered system, and privacy aims at the protection of personal data that are processed by the system. The identification of privacy protection needs in complex systems is a hard and error prone task. Stakeholders whose per...

Security and Privacy protection have been a public approach worry for quite long time. Notwithstanding, quick innovative changes, the fast development of internet electronic business, improvement more modern techniques gathering, investigating, utilizing individual information made privacy significant government issues. The field data mining is acquiring importance acknowledgment to accessibili...

Many privacy protection tools have been proposed for preserving privacy. Tools for protection of visual privacy available today lack either all or some of the important properties that are expected from such tools. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method for privacy protection based on false color visualization, which maps color palette of an image into a different co...

1389-1286/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2012.03.022 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Pingle (W. Yu), [email protected] (N. Zhang), xinwenfu [email protected] (W. Zhao). We address issues related to privacy protection in location-based services (LBSs). Most existing privacy-preserving LBS techniques either require a trusted thi...