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 …

A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

Mobile communication services raise user privacy concerns in sharing the traveling
trajectories while facilitating people's daily lives. According to these shared trajectories …

Digital assistants (DA) perform routine tasks for users by interacting with the Internet of
Things (IoT) devices and digital services. To do so, such assistants rely heavily on personal …

In an effort to gauge the global pandemic's impact on social thoughts and behavior, it is
important to answer the following questions:(1) What kinds of topics are individuals and …

With users becoming increasingly privacy-aware and browser vendors incorporating anti-
tracking mechanisms, browser fingerprinting has garnered significant attention. Accordingly …

Prior research shows that combining social science with big data can advance our
understanding of key social issues like bullying. The current study examines the sharing and …

Concern over the privacy of our personal location is at an all‐time high, yet the desire to
share our lives with friends, family, and the public persists. Current methods and …

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 …

Contact tracing applications have flooded the marketplace, as governments worldwide have
been working to release apps for their citizens. These apps use a variety of protocols to …