Location privacy-preserving mechanisms in location-based services: A comprehensive survey

H Jiang, J Li, P Zhao, F Zeng, Z **ao… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Location-based services (LBSs) provide enhanced functionality and convenience of
ubiquitous computing, but they open up new vulnerabilities that can be utilized to violate the …

Wearable activity trackers: A survey on utility, privacy, and security

K Salehzadeh Niksirat, L Velykoivanenko… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Over the past decade, wearable activity trackers (WATs) have become increasingly popular.
However, despite many research studies in different fields (eg psychology, health, and …

What you do not expect when you are expecting: Privacy analysis of Femtech

J Erickson, JY Yuzon, T Bonaci - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we focus on femtech, a category of software, diagnostics, and products that
serve female health needs. While acknowledging the unprecedented growth and potential of …

SoK: Managing risks of linkage attacks on data privacy

J Powar, AR Beresford - Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing …, 2023 - petsymposium.org
Novel attacks on dataset privacy are usually met with the same range of responses: surprise
that a route to information gain exists from information previously thought to be safe; …

On (the lack of) location privacy in crowdsourcing applications

S Boukoros, M Humbert, S Katzenbeisser… - 28th USENIX Security …, 2019 - usenix.org
Crowdsourcing enables application developers to benefit from large and diverse datasets at
a low cost. Specifically, mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) leverages users' devices as sensors to …

A Run a Day Won't Keep the Hacker Away: Inference Attacks on Endpoint Privacy Zones in Fitness Tracking Social Networks

K Dhondt, V Le Pochat, A Voulimeneas… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Fitness tracking social networks such as Strava allow users to record sports activities and
share them publicly. Sharing encourages peer interaction but also constitutes a risk …

A Complete and Comprehensive Semantic Perception of Mobile Travelling for Mobile Communication Services

G Qiu, G Tang, C Li, L Luo, D Guo… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The novel IoT-based data sensing and service mode promotes the booming development of
crowdsensing-based mobile communication services (MCSs). MCS facilitates people's daily …

Differentiated Location Privacy Protection in Mobile Communication Services: A Survey from the Semantic Perception Perspective

G Qiu, G Tang, C Li, L Luo, D Guo, Y Shen - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Mobile communication services raise user privacy concerns in sharing the traveling
trajectories while facilitating people's daily lives. According to these shared trajectories …

Watch your watch: Inferring personality traits from wearable activity trackers

N Zufferey, M Humbert, R Tavenard… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Wearable devices, such as wearable activity trackers (WATs), are increasing in popularity.
Although they can help to improve one's quality of life, they also raise serious privacy issues …

Automated AI research on cyber attack prediction and security design

R Madala, N Vijayakumar, N Nandini… - … and Informatics (IC3I …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fast expanding topic of study on automated AI is focused on the prediction and prevention
of cyber-attacks using machine learning algorithms. In this study, we examined the research …