Traditional techniques for balancing privacy and awareness in video media spaces, like blur filtration, have been proven to be ineffective for compromising home situations involving a media space. As such, this paper presents the rationale and prototype design of a context-aware home media space (HMS)—defined as an always-on video media space used within a home setting—that focuses on identifyi...

Social media gives users an efficient way to communicate and network with each other on an unprecedented scale and at rates unseen in traditional media. As his social network expands, a user’s privacy protection goes beyond his privacy setting and becomes a social networking problem. In this research, we aim to address some critical issues related to privacy protection: Would the highest privac...

The collection and analysis of user data drives improvements in the app and web ecosystems, but comes with risks to privacy. This paper examines discrete distribution estimation under local privacy, a setting wherein service providers can learn the distribution of a categorical statistic of interest without collecting the underlying data. We present new mechanisms, including hashed k-ary Random...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges to faculty (Fac) and students (Stu) uphold academic integrity when many classes transitioned from traditional remote. This study compared Fac Stu perceptions surrounding using technology assisted proctoring in online testing. Methods: College ( N = 150) 78) completed a survey about of use software for Wilcoxon rank-sum tests were used determine ...

Significant success has been realized recently on applying machine learning to real-world applications. There have also been corresponding concerns on the privacy of training data, which relates to data security and confidentiality issues. Differential privacy provides a principled and rigorous privacy guarantee on machine learning models. While it is common to design a model satisfying a requi...

Privacy is a prime concern in today’s information society. To protect the privacy of individuals, enterprises must follow certain privacy practices, while collecting or processing personal data. In this chapter we look at the setting where an enterprise collects private data on its website, processes it inside the enterprise and shares it with partner enterprises. In particular, we analyse thre...

Privacy is a prime concern in today’s information society. To protect the privacy of individuals, enterprises must follow certain privacy practices, while collecting or processing personal data. In this chapter we look at the setting where an enterprise collects private data on its website, processes it inside the enterprise and shares it with partner enterprises. In particular, we analyse thre...

Traditional techniques for balancing privacy and awareness in video media spaces have been proven to be ineffective for compromising home situations involving a media space. As such, we present the rationale and prototype design of a context-aware home media space (HMS)—defined as an always-on video media space used within a home setting— that focuses on identifying plausible solutions for bala...

the private area (privacy) is a humanitarian issue and one of the concepts of developed lawful systems which is closely related to human dignity. therefore, supporting and protecting the individuals' personalities and the citizens' rights requires protection of privacy, which leads to human signification. privacy is not clearly and meaningfully supported, in iranian law. like the posi...

Location-aware applications are one of the biggest innovations brought by the smartphone era, and are effectively changing our everyday lives. But we are only starting to grasp the privacy risks associated with constant tracking of our whereabouts. In order to continue using location-based services in the future without compromising our privacy and security, we need new, privacy-friendly applic...