The newly emerged machine learning (eg, deep learning) methods have become a strong
driving force to revolutionize a wide range of industries, such as smart healthcare, financial …

Internet of Things (IoT) devices have brought much efficiency and convenience to our daily
life. However, the devices may collect a myriad of data from people without their consent …

The privacy policies and practices of six consumer Internet of things (IoT) devices were
reviewed and compared. In addition, an empirical verification of the compliance of privacy …

Privacy policies as a means of communicating with customers still prove ineffective.
Researchers have recently suggested that a specific usage context should be considered to …

Quantized large language models are large language models (LLMs) optimized for model
size while preserving their efficacy. They can be executed on consumer-grade computers …

IoT technology provides great solutions in many fields including healthcare, military,
logistics, etc. It aims to collect data and process it to provide useful services and knowledge …

Abstract Smart Personal Voice Assistants (SPA) are fast becoming popular with the
widespread introduction of desktop, phone and home assistants. Over a hundred million …

Recent studies show that many Android applications either do not have a privacy policy in
place or there are some inconsistencies between their application and the corresponding …

Smart home devices often blend in seamlessly into the environment and operate
ubiquitously, providing almost no contextual information such as data collection or activated …

Salient object detection is a key component in a number of computer vision applications,
including scene understanding, object recognition, and image understanding. In salient …