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PET
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Achieving Efficient Query Privacy for Location Based Services
Mobile smartphone users frequently need to search for nearby points of interest from a location based service, but in a way that preserves the privacy of the users' locations...
Femi G. Olumofin, Piotr K. Tysowski, Ian Goldberg,...
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Drac: An Architecture for Anonymous Low-Volume Communications
We present Drac, a system designed to provide anonymity and unobservability for real-time instant messaging and voice-over-IP communications against a global passive adversary. The...
George Danezis, Claudia Díaz, Carmela Tronc...
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
unFriendly: Multi-party Privacy Risks in Social Networks
Abstract. As the popularity of social networks expands, the information users expose to the public has potentially dangerous implications for individual privacy. While social netwo...
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, David M. Nicol
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Privacy-Preserving Queries over Relational Databases
We explore how Private Information Retrieval (PIR) can help users keep their sensitive information from being leaked in an SQL query. We show how to retrieve data from a relational...
Femi G. Olumofin, Ian Goldberg
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Making a Nymbler Nymble Using VERBS
In this work, we propose a new platform to enable service providers, such as web site operators, on the Internet to block past abusive users of anonymizing networks (for example, T...
Ryan Henry, Kevin Henry, Ian Goldberg
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Collaborative, Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation at Scale
Combining and analyzing data collected at multiple locations is critical for a wide variety of applications, such as detecting and diagnosing malicious attacks or computing an acc...
Benny Applebaum, Haakon Ringberg, Michael J. Freed...
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
How to Share Your Favourite Search Results while Preserving Privacy and Quality
Personalised social search is a promising avenue to increase the relevance of search engine results by making use of recommendations made by friends in a social network. More gener...
George Danezis, Tuomas Aura, Shuo Chen, Emre Kicim...
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Private Information Disclosure from Web Searches
As the amount of personal information stored at remote service providers increases, so does the danger of data theft. When connections to remote services are made in the clear and ...
Claude Castelluccia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Danie...
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
On the Privacy of Web Search Based on Query Obfuscation: A Case Study of TrackMeNot
Web Search is one of the most rapidly growing applications on the internet today. However, the current practice followed by most search engines ā€“ of logging and analyzing usersā€...
Sai Teja Peddinti, Nitesh Saxena
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
How Unique Is Your Web Browser?
We investigate the degree to which modern web browsers are subject to ā€œdevice ļ¬ngerprintingā€ via the version and conļ¬guration information that they will transmit to website...
Peter Eckersley