A dummy-based user privacy protection approach for text information retrieval

Z Wu, S Shen, X Lian, X Su, E Chen - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Text retrieval enables people to efficiently obtain the desired data from massive text data, so
has become one of the most popular services in information retrieval community. However …

A user sensitive subject protection approach for book search service

Z Wu, R Li, Z Zhou, J Guo, J Jiang… - Journal of the Association …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In a digital library, book search is one of the most important information services. However,
with the rapid development of network technologies such as cloud computing, the server …

A confusion method for the protection of user topic privacy in Chinese keyword-based book retrieval

Z Wu, J Xie, S Shen, C Lin, G Xu, E Chen - ACM transactions on asian …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this article, aiming at a Chinese keyword-based book search service, from a technological
perspective, we propose to modify a user query sequence carefully to confuse the user …

A basic framework for privacy protection in personalized information retrieval: An effective framework for user privacy protection

Z Wu, S Shen, H Li, H Zhou, C Lu - Journal of Organizational and …, 2021 - igi-global.com
Personalized information retrieval is an effective tool to solve the problem of information
overload. Along with the rapid development of emerging network technologies such as …

Privacy protection in personalized search

X Shen, B Tan, CX Zhai - ACM SIGIR Forum, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Personalized search is a promising way to improve the accuracy of web search, and has
been attracting much attention recently. However, effective personalized search requires …

On the privacy of web search based on query obfuscation: A case study of trackmenot

ST Peddinti, N Saxena - … 10th International Symposium, PETS 2010, Berlin …, 2010 - Springer
Web Search is one of the most rapidly growing applications on the internet today. However,
the current practice followed by most search engines–of logging and analyzing users' …

Preserving user's privacy in web search engines

J Castellà-Roca, A Viejo… - Computer …, 2009 - Elsevier
Web search engines (eg Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, etc.) are widely used to find
certain data among a huge amount of information in a minimal amount of time. However …

Privacy-enhancing personalized web search

Y Xu, K Wang, B Zhang, Z Chen - … of the 16th international conference on …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Personalized web search is a promising way to improve search quality by customizing
search results for people with individual information goals. However, users are …

Providing privacy through plausibly deniable search

M Murugesan, C Clifton - Proceedings of the 2009 SIAM International …, 2009 - SIAM
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). In July …

{BLENDER}: Enabling local search with a hybrid differential privacy model

B Avent, A Korolova, D Zeber, T Hovden… - 26th USENIX Security …, 2017 - usenix.org
We propose a hybrid model of differential privacy that considers a combination of regular
and opt-in users who desire the differential privacy guarantees of the local privacy model …