The participatory sensing paradigm, through the growing availability of cheap sensors in mobile devices, enables applications of great social and business interest, e.g. electrosmog exposure measurement, early earthquake detection, etc. However, users’ privacy concerns regarding their activity traces need to be adequately addressed first. Existing static privacy-enabling approaches, which hide ...

Health-related personal information is very privacy-sensitive. Online privacy policies inform Website users about the ways their personal information is gathered, processed and stored. In the light of increasing privacy concerns, privacy policies seem to be an important mechanism for increasing customer loyalty. However, in practice, consumers only rarely read privacy policies, possibly due to ...

The participatory sensing paradigm, through the growing availability of cheap sensors in mobile devices, enables applications of great social and business interest, e.g., electrosmog exposure measurement and early earthquake detection. However, users’ privacy concerns regarding their activity traces need to be adequately addressed as well. The existing static privacy-enabling approaches, which ...

Privacy concern continues to grow as online presences become more prevalent through social network sites (SNSs). Significant research has studied the privacy concern construct as it pertains to privacy for information about self, however little research considers a privacy concern for information about others. We hypothesize relationships between both privacy concern for self and others and thr...

The purpose of this research, is to study factors influencing privacy concerns about data security and protection on social network sites and its’ influence on self-disclosure. 100 articles about privacy protection, data security, information disclosure and Information leakage on social networks were studied. Models and algorithms types and their repetition in articles have been distinguished a...

The availability of individual load profiles per household in the smart grid end-user domain combined with non-intrusive load monitoring to infer personal data from these load curves has led to privacy concerns. Privacy-enhancing technologies have been proposed to address these concerns. In this paper, the extension of privacy-enhancing technologies by wavelet-based multi-resolution analysis (M...

Increasingly, web-based applications are created through the composition of multiple functional components provided by different institutions. These so called ”mash-ups” are an effective means to rapidly develop new applications. However, when these mash-ups are embedded within social networking sites that aggregate and expose personal data, such as Facebook, MySpace, or LinkedIn, serious priva...

BACKGROUND As electronic health records (EHRs) become ubiquitous in the health care industry, privacy breaches are increasing and being made public. These breaches may make consumers wary of the technology, undermining its potential to improve care coordination and research. OBJECTIVE Given the developing concerns around privacy of personal health information stored in digital format, it is i...

Selfies, or self-portraits, are often taken and shared on social media for online self-presentation reasons, which are considered essential for the psychosocial development and well-being of people in today's culture. Despite the growing popularity and widespread sharing of selfies in the online space, little is known about how privacy concerns moderate selfie behavior. In addition to this, it ...

Traditional privacy research would suggest that whether to disclose personal information or not is an individual-based action. However in this paper, we suggest that the consideration of interpersonal level of interaction would also be of vital importance to privacy protection on Social Network Sites (SNS). Based on the theory of self-efficacy, we postulate a research framework that includes th...