privacy
RSS privacyPrivacy watchdog lets Microsoft off the hook
News US privacy watchdog, Truste has decided not to take action against Microsoft, despite ruling that the firm's Windows 98 software compromised user privacy. Truste found that Windows 98's online... [23 Mar 1999]
Privacy Enhanced Wireless Internet Platform for Secure UHF Mobile RFID
White Paper Consequently it will propose the way to protect the personal privacy effectively using privacy preference on this paper. The goal of this paper is to provide an approach for ensuring RFID (Radio... [01 Aug 2007]
Privacy Preserving Data Mining: A Signal Processing Perspective and a Simple Data Perturbation Protocol
White Paper Privacy concerns over the proliferation of gathering of personal information by various institutions over the internet led to the development of data mining algorithms that preserve the privacy of those... [07 Oct 2008]
Privacy Preserving Data Mining
White Paper This paper addresses the issue of privacy preserving data mining. Specifically, the paper considers a scenario in which two parties owning confidential databases wish to run a data mining algorithm on the union of their... [19 Sep 2008]
APHID: A Practical Architecture for High-Performance, Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
White Paper While the emerging field of Privacy Preserving Data Mining (PPDM) will enable many new data mining applications, it suffers from several practical difficulties. PPDM algorithms are difficult to develop and... [29 Aug 2009]
Privacy: Do online shoppers care?
News The Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Lab (Cups) monitored the habits of people ranging in age from 18 to 71 who were given money and instructed to buy certain items online while using the search engine... [08 Jun 2007]
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining on Moving Object Trajectories
White Paper However, there is a potential conflict of interest: the data mining methods want as precise data as possible, while the users want to protect their privacy by not disclosing their exact movements. This paper aims to... [29 Aug 2009]
Data Mining, National Security, Privacy and Civil Liberties
White Paper While all of these applications of data mining can benefit humans and save lives, there is also a negative side to this technology, since it could be a threat to the privacy of individuals. This is because data mining... [19 Sep 2008]
Privacy campaigners declare war on Information Commission
News The Information Commission has come under more fire today from privacy campaigners flabbergasted by what they claim is the Commission's lenient stance on protecting data. Writing in the Telegraph today, Simon Davies,... [26 Jul 2002]
Peer-to-Peer Data Mining, Privacy Issues, and Games
White Paper It also discusses some of the privacy concerns with P2P data mining and points out the problems of existing privacy-preserving multi-party data mining techniques. It further points out that most of the... [19 Sep 2008]
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining on Data Grids in the Presence of Malicious Participants
White Paper Data privacy is a major threat to the widespread deployment of data grids in domains such as health care and finance. The paper proposes a novel technique for obtaining knowledge - by way of a data mining model - from a... [01 Oct 2008]
Privacy Preserving Data Mining in Telecommunication Services
White Paper Privacy preserving data mining is a new research direction in data mining and knowledge discovery. A main reason for the rapid development of this research area is the growing awareness of the accumulation of huge... [29 Aug 2009]
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining Using Multi-Group Randomized Response Techniques
White Paper Privacy is an important issue in data mining and knowledge discovery. This paper describes a specific privacy preserving data mining problem: Company C wants to collect data from its customers to form a... [01 Oct 2008]
Multi-Party, Privacy-Preserving Distributed Data Mining Using a Game Theoretic Framework
White Paper Analysis of privacy-sensitive data in a multi-party environment often assumes that the parties are well-behaved and they abide by the protocols. This paper argues that most of these assumptions fall apart in real-life... [29 Aug 2009]
Privacy ruling opens legal floodgates
News Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said: "The ramifications of this case are profound. According to Privacy International's Davies this could be the first in a raft of similar cases. A... [19 Nov 2001]
