APOD: Anonymous Physical Object Delivery

Delivery of products bought online can violate consumers’ privacy, although not in a straightforward way. In particular, delivery companies that have contracted with a website know the company selling the product, as well as the name and address of the online customer. To make matters worse, if the same delivery company has contracted with many websites, aggregated information per address may be used to profile customers’ transaction activities. In this paper, we present a fair delivery service system with guaranteed customer anonymity and merchant-customer unlinkability, with reasonable assumptions about the threat model.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: PET
• Authors: Elli Androulaki, Steven M. Bellovin
• Keywords: Delivery Companies, Fair Delivery Service, PET 2009, Products Bought Online, Security Privacy