Anonymization: The imperfect science of using data while preserving privacy

A Gadotti, L Rocher, F Houssiau, AM Creţu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Information about us, our actions, and our preferences is created at scale through surveys or
scientific studies or as a result of our interaction with digital devices such as smartphones …

Confidentiality protection in the 2020 US Census of Population and Housing

JM Abowd, MB Hawes - Annual Review of Statistics and Its …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
In an era where external data and computational capabilities far exceed statistical agencies'
own resources and capabilities, they face the renewed challenge of protecting the …

Permissioned blockchain and edge computing empowered privacy-preserving smart grid networks

K Gai, Y Wu, L Zhu, L Xu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The blooming trend of smart grid deployment is engaged by the evolution of the network
technology, as the connected environment offers various alternatives for electrical data …

Mobility changes in response to COVID-19

MS Warren, SW Skillman - arxiv preprint arxiv:2003.14228, 2020 - arxiv.org
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, both voluntary changes in behavior and
administrative restrictions on human interactions have occurred. These actions are intended …

Achieving k-anonymity in privacy-aware location-based services

B Niu, Q Li, X Zhu, G Cao, H Li - IEEE INFOCOM 2014-IEEE …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Location-Based Service (LBS) has become a vital part of our daily life. While enjoying the
convenience provided by LBS, users may lose privacy since the untrusted LBS server has …

Autonomous vehicles for smart and sustainable cities: An in-depth exploration of privacy and cybersecurity implications

HSM Lim, A Taeihagh - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Amidst rapid urban development, sustainable transportation solutions are required to meet
the increasing demands for mobility whilst mitigating the potentially negative social …

Quantifying location privacy

R Shokri, G Theodorakopoulos… - … IEEE symposium on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is a well-known fact that the progress of personal communication devices leads to serious
concerns about privacy in general, and location privacy in particular. As a response to these …

Enhancing privacy through caching in location-based services

B Niu, Q Li, X Zhu, G Cao, H Li - 2015 IEEE conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Privacy protection is critical for Location-Based Services (LBSs). In most previous solutions,
users query service data from the untrusted LBS server when needed, and discard the data …

Anonymization of location data does not work: A large-scale measurement study

H Zang, J Bolot - Proceedings of the 17th annual international …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
We examine a very large-scale data set of more than 30 billion call records made by 25
million cell phone users across all 50 states of the US and attempt to determine to what …

Synthesizing plausible privacy-preserving location traces

V Bindschaedler, R Shokri - 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camouflaging user's actual location with fakes is a prevalent obfuscation technique for
protecting location privacy. We show that the protection mechanisms based on the existing …