This paper attempts to lay the foundation for future research into an area that has been called the “hottest workplace privacy topic of the next decade.” The existing empirical studies and the literature reviewed of this area suggest that the latest intrusive monitoring technologies which have been introduced to the current workplace has undoubtedly created an unwanted and unexpected imbalance ...

Abstract The recent decades have seen established liberal democracies expand their surveillance capacities on a massive scale. This article explores what is problematic about government by democracies. It proceeds distinguishing three potential sources of concern: (1) the concern that governments diminish citizens’ privacy collecting data, (2) they accessing and (3) collected data may be used f...

Privacy Shielding against Mass Surveillance (PSMS) provides a step by step tactical approach to protecting the privacy of all the users of the internet from mass surveillance programs by the governments and other state agencies. Protection of one’s privacy is of prime importance and Privacy Shielding provides the right means against mass surveillance programs and from malicious users trying to ...

Shadow detection is still considered as one of the potential challenges for intelligent automated video surveillance systems. A pre requisite for reliable and accurate detection and tracking is the correct shadow detection and classification. In such a landscape of conditions, privacy issues add more and more complexity and require reliable shadow detection. In this work the intertwining betwee...

Various applications following the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm have become a part of our everyday lives. Therefore, designing mechanisms for security, trust and privacy for this context is important. As one example, applications related to electronic surveillance and monitoring have serious issues related to privacy. Research is needed on how to design privacy preserving surveillance syst...

Video surveillance offers many advantages but also introduces privacy issues. We propose a video surveillance architecture that preserves privacy by providing different levels of anonymization. To this end, we model an assisted living scenario and show that our architecture can provide provable privacy under explicit assumptions while maintaining the utility of the architecture. This shows that...