The study of information privacy in e-commerce is still in its infancy. Current studies have mainly focused on consumers’ general concern for privacy. They have largely ignored situational factors (such as emotions, website design, etc) and the potential influence of situational factors in shaping Internet users’ perception about the level of privacy (or privacy belief) ensured by online vendor...

This article first describes the privacy concerns that arise due to data mining, especially for national security applications. Then we discuss privacy-preserving data mining. In particular, we view the privacy problem as a form of inference problem and introduce the notion of privacy constraints. We also describe an approach for privacy constraint processing and discuss its relationship to pri...

The emerging public awareness and government regulations of data privacy motivate new paradigms collecting analyzing that are transparent acceptable to owners. We present a concept corresponding formats, mechanisms, theories for privatizing during collection. privacy, named Interval Privacy, enforces the raw conditional distribution on privatized be same as its unconditional over nontrivial sup...

Individuals don’t often have privacy expectations. When asked to consider them, realities were frequently perceived not meet these Some websites exploit the trust of individuals by selling, sharing, or analysing their data. Without intervention, do understand implications, nor anything address it. This study has identified that many users An extension developed for this improved awareness, beha...

Several opinion polls have reported that many people claim to be concerned about their privacy, yet that most people in fact do very little to protect their privacy. Are privacy concerns indeed insufficient motivators to adopt privacy protection strategies? What then characterizes the users of these strategies? On the basis of a large scale survey amongst Dutch students, this paper explores the...

In network environments, the entities that connect to or interact with each other may know very little about each other or without prior knowledge at the beginning of an interaction. Therefore, in many cases, before a serious interaction begins, trust must be established between the interactive entities. During trust establishment, an entity may require that the other entity provide some inform...

Privacy enforcement has been one of the most important challenges in IT area. Current privacy practices within companies and organizations, e.g. enabling a P3P compliant policy, incorporating a privacy seal program, etc., cannot truly protect consumer privacy. Privacy protection can only be achieved by enforcing privacy policies within an organization’s online and offline data processing system...

Recent government-led efforts and industry-sponsored privacy initiatives in the healthcare sector have received heightened publicity. The current set of privacy legislation mandates that all parties involved in the delivery of care specify and publish privacy policies regarding the use and disclosure of personal health information. The authors’ study of actual healthcare privacy policies indica...