Closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras are widely used in public and private areas around the world. It is primarily for tracking individuals preventing criminal activities. necessary to balance benefits of video risks it poses individuals' right privacy. The existing studies raised privacy issues installing CCTV places. However, there a lack investigating users’ awareness inform...

Numerous ethical and societal issues are related to the development of nanotechnology. Among them, the risk for privacy has long been discussed. Some people say that technology is neutral and that it does not really change the nature of problems, which are mainly political, while others state that its contemporary developments considerably amplify them; there are even persons who assert that it...

In this paper, we describe our approach and discuss evaluation results for the MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces of people visible in provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. We also additionally assume, although it is not explicitly stated in the task description, that the privacy protection should be done in an automated way an...

The Internet is producing a wealth of data about its own operation, in the form of NetFlow records, routing table entries, traffic statistics, etc. Several previous works – including, for instance, Clark’s “knowledge plane” – have considered the idea of building a giant distributed database that (at least conceptually) contains all of this information. Such a database could have many attractive...

RFID tags have very promising applications in many domains (retail, rental, surveillance, medicine to name a few). Unfortunately the use of these tags can have serious implications on the privacy of people carrying tagged items. Serious opposition from consumers has already thwarted several trials of this technology. The main fears associated with the tags is that they may allow other parties t...

Information technology has reached a level of sophistication so that its users leave detailed traces of the parts of their lives when they knowingly interact with information systems (e.g., Internet use) or participate in the social sphere (e.g., video surveillance). The recent advent of the smart home technology, that is residential properties being equipped with sensors and interconnected sma...

Big data has been arising a growing interest in both scien- tific and industrial fields for its potential value. However, before employing big data technology into massive appli- cations, a basic but also principle topic should be investigated: security and privacy. One of the biggest concerns of big data is privacy. However, the study on big data privacy is still at a very early stage. Many or...

Our society has been getting more privacy-sensitive. Diverse information is given by users to information and communications technology (ICT) systems such as IC cards benefiting them. The information is stored as so-called big data, and there is concern over privacy violation. Visual information such as images and videos is also considered privacy-sensitive. The growing deployment of surveillan...