The goal of privacy metrics is to measure the degree of privacy enjoyed by users in a system
and the amount of protection offered by privacy-enhancing technologies. In this way, privacy …

As smartphones are increasingly used to run apps that provide users with location-based
services, the users' location privacy has become a major concern. Existing solutions to this …

Location-aware smartphones support various location-based services (LBSs): users query
the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. However, such queries give …

Mobile users increasingly report their co-locations with other users, in addition to revealing
their locations to online services. For instance, they tag the names of the friends they are …

Over the last few years, the vast progress in genome sequencing has highly increased the
availability of genomic data. Today, individuals can obtain their digital genomic sequences …

This paper presents a concrete and widespread example of situation where a user's location
privacy is unintentionally compromised by others, specifically the location-privacy threat that …

The proliferation of location‐based services, representative services for the mobile networks,
has posed a serious threat to users' privacy. In the literature, several privacy mechanisms …

We address the problem of location privacy in the context of crowdsourced localization of
spectrum offenders where participating receivers report received signal strength (RSS) …

Equipping vehicles with communication technology is a promising approach to increase
both safety and the efficiency of tomorrow's road traffic. However, without proper privacy …

With the emergence of web applications that enabled user-generated content and social
interactions, the Web became a place where people can engage in a number of new …