Publications associées à Our Data, Our Solutions: A Participatory Approach for Enhancing Privacy in Wearable Activity Tracker Third-Party Apps

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A Privacy-Preserving Querying Mechanism with High Utility for Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more popular due to environmental consciousness. The limited availability of charging stations (CSs), compared to the number of EVs on the road, has led to increased range anxiety and a higher frequency of CS queries du ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

System-level Design of Adaptive Wearable Sensors for Health and Wellness Monitoring

Elisabetta De Giovanni

In recent years, population aging and the consequent higher incidence of noncommunicable diseases, have increased the need for long-term health monitoring. Moreover, as healthcare cost is projected to grow substantially by 2030 in OECD countries, the deman ...

EPFL2021

Rethinking Location Privacy for Unknown Mobility Behaviors

Carmela González Troncoso

Location Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms (LPPMs) in the literature largely consider that users' data available for training wholly characterizes their mobility patterns. Thus, they hardwire this information in their designs and evaluate their privacy propert ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Topics in Educational Cyber-Physical Labs : Configurations, Data Collection and Analysis

Wissam Halimi

Recent advances in remote sensing and actuation technologies, coupled with the large reach of the internet, allowed for the emergence of applications such as cyber-physical labs. Cyber-physical labs are the digital and remotely-accessible equivalent of the ...

EPFL2018

PrivateRide: A Privacy-Enhanced Ride-Hailing Service

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Florian Tramèr, Thi Van Anh Pham

In the past few years, we have witnessed a rise in the popularity of ride-hailing services (RHSs), an online marketplace that enables accredited drivers to use their own cars to drive ride-hailing users. Unlike other transportation services, RHSs raise sig ...

2017

UnLynx: A Decentralized System for Privacy-Conscious Data Sharing

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Jean Louis Raisaro, Zhicong Huang, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, David Jules Froelicher, Christian Vincent Mouchet, Patricia Egger

Current solutions for privacy-preserving data sharing among multiple parties either depend on a centralized authority that must be trusted and provides only weakest-link security (e.g., the entity that manages private/secret cryptographic keys), or leverag ...

De Gruyter2017

Privacy-preserving distributed collaborative filtering

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec

We propose a new mechanism to preserve privacy while leveraging user profiles in distributed recommender systems. Our mechanism relies on two contributions: (i) an original obfuscation scheme, and (ii) a randomized dissemination protocol. We show that our ...

Springer Wien2016

The Curious Case of the PDF Converter that Likes Mozart: Dissecting and Mitigating the Privacy Risk of Personal Cloud Apps

Bojan Karlas, Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman

Third party apps that work on top of personal cloud services such as Google Drive and Dropbox, require access to the user’s data in order to provide some functionality. Through detailed analysis of a hundred popular Google Drive apps from Google’s Chrome s ...

2016

Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing based on a Secure JPEG

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

Sharing photos online is a common activity on social networks and photo hosting platforms, such as Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, or Flickr. However, after reports of citizens surveillance by governmental agencies and the scandalous leakage of celebrities ...

2015

A Cloud-Based eHealth Architecture for Privacy Preserving Data Integration

Karl Aberer, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Matteo Vasirani, Alevtina Dubovitskaya

In this paper, we address the problem of building an anonymized medical database from multiple sources. Our proposed solution defines how to achieve data integration in a heterogeneous network of many clinical institutions, while preserving data utility an ...

Springer International Publishing2015

Towards optimal distortion-based visual privacy filters

Touradj Ebrahimi

The widespread usage of digital video surveillance systems has increased the concerns for privacy violation. Since video surveillance systems are invasive, it is a challenge to find an acceptable balance between privacy of the public under surveillance and ...

2014

Secure and Private Proofs for Location-Based Activity Summaries in Urban Areas

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic, Thi Van Anh Pham

Activity-based social networks, where people upload and share information about their location-based activities (e.g., the routes of their activities), are increasingly popular. Such systems, however, raise privacy and security issues: the service provider ...

2014

Quantifying and Protecting Location Privacy

Reza Shokri

Recent developments in information and communication technologies have been profound and life-changing. Most people are now equipped with smart phones with high computation power and communication capabilities. These devices can efficiently run multiple so ...

EPFL2013