The purpose of this article is to provide a sound and coherent articulation of the rights to data protection, privacy and identity within the EU legal framework. For this purpose, the paper provides a number of important criteria through which the three different rights in question can be clearly defined, distinguished and articulated. Although intrinsically interrelated, the article draws atte...

In many socio-economic surveys, the variable of interest is sensitive or stigmatizing. Examples include tax evasion, criminal conviction, alcohol expenses, induced abortion, drug abuse, etc. In such situations, the technique of randomized response is very useful as it does not require the respondent to reveal his/her true value. The issue of privacy protection is important in this context and a...

Information and communication technology has deepened the problem of workplace surveillance by expanding the capacity to measure and monitor worker activity. Partly because of inadequate government attention to privacy protection and partly because the government itself has used security concerns to overturn privacy protections, civil society organizations and movements have increasingly taken ...

Due to the importance of privacy protection for smart home environments, there have been numerous propositions, to support event source anonymity using fake data transmissions and delays. Among them, periodic and probabilistic distribution-based transmission methods achieve near perfect privacy while sacrificing real time transmission of detected event data. In this paper, we aim to study the p...

Data security has consistently been a major issue in information technology. In the cloud computing environment, it becomes particularly serious because the data is located in different places even in all the globe. Data security and privacy protection are the two main factors of user’s concerns about the cloud technology. Though many techniques on the topics in cloud computing have been invest...

Protection goals such as confidentiality, integrity and availability have proved to be successful in evaluating information security risks and choosing appropriate safeguards. The recently developed privacy-specific protection goals unlinkability, transparency and intervenability complement these classic goals and thereby provide cornerstones to define requirements concerning information securi...

Availing services provided via the Internet became a widely accepted means in organising one’s life. Beside others, eLearning goes with this trend as well. But, while employing Internet service makes life more convenient, at the same time, it raises risks with respect to the protection of the users’ privacy. This paper analyses the attitudes of eLearning users towards their privacy by, initiall...

-A non-revivable Privacy Protection Circuit is proposed and designed in a low frequency passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) transponder. The main component of the non-revivable Privacy Protection Circuit is a poly fuse. The fuse acts as a switch and will be burn out when the function of transponder must be disabled. The broken fuse can not be repaired and prohibit the power required f...

At present, data mining algorithms are largely the domain of governments, large organisations and academia where they provide useful insight into the data. However, without the ability to assure privacy protection, the availability of datasets for research purposes may be impaired. Moreover, privacypreservation is essential if data mining is to be permitted widespread use in government and comm...

Privacy is one of the most important social and political issues in our information society, characterized by a growing range of enabling and supporting technologies and services. Amongst these are communications, multimedia, biometrics, big data, cloud computing, data mining, internet, social networks, and audio–video surveillance. Each of these can potentially provide the means for privacy in...