Wireless sensor networks have been widely deployed in many social settings to monitor human activities and urban environment. In these contexts, they acquire and collect sensory data, and collaboratively fuse the data. Due to resource constraint, sensor nodes however cannot perform complex data processing. Hence, cloud-integrated sensor networks have been proposed to leverage the cloud computin...

This paper considers the relationship between privacy and security and, in particular, the traditional ”trade-off” paradigm that argues that citizens might be willing to sacrifice some privacy for more security. Academics have long argued against the trade-off paradigm, but these arguments have often fallen on deaf ears. Based on data gathered in a pan-European survey we show that both privacy ...

For a variety of advantages, universities and other organizations are resorting to e-learning to provide instruction on-line. While many advances have been made in the mechanics of providing online instruction, the needs for privacy and security have to-date been largely ignored. At best they have been accommodated in an ad-hoc, patchwork fashion. Privacy can be described as a learner's ability...

Privacy and security are important topics in research and business. This work on one hand offers a way to differentiate these two topics and provides information about different privacy regulations already existing in Europe and the US. We clarify definitions of information privacy and state that privacy and security are not the same, although most companies do not differentiate. A content anal...

Recent Articles: n Trustworthy Web Services: An Experience-Based Model for Trustworthiness Evaluation n Administering the Semantic Web: Confidentiality, Privacy, and Trust Management n Privacy-Preserving Transactions Protocol using Mobile Agents with Mutual Authentication As information technology and the Internet become increasingly pervasive in our daily lives, there is an essential need for ...