Today’s Web browsers allow users to open links in new windows or tabs. This action, which we call ‘branching’, is sometimes performed on search results when the user plans t...
With the development of emerging social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace, security and privacy threats arising from social network analysis bring a risk of disclosure of con...
In this paper we study when the disclosure of data mining results represents, per se, a threat to the anonymity of the individuals recorded in the analyzed database. The novelty o...
Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti...
Query-based web search is an integral part of many people’s daily activities. Most do not realize that their search history can be used to identify them (and their interests). I...
Spyware represents a serious threat to confidentiality since it may result in loss of control over private data for computer users. This type of software might collect the data and...
Raja Khurram Shahzad, Syed Imran Haider, Niklas La...