What's in a Name - Facebook's Real Name Policy and User Privacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shun-Ling Chen
Keyword(s):  
User Privacy ◽  
Real Name Policy

A Review on 3GPP 5G Security Aspects

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajavelsamy R ◽  
Debabrata Das
Keyword(s):  
Network Architecture ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Cellular Systems ◽  
Core Network ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Wireless Backhaul ◽  
Level Of Use ◽  
Unified Authentication ◽  
3Rd Generation Partnership Project ◽  
5G Security

5G promises to support new level of use cases that will deliver a better user experience. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) [1] defined 5G system introduced fundamental changes on top of its former cellular systems in several design areas, including security. Unlike in the legacy systems, the 5G architecture design considers Home control enhancements for roaming customer, tight collaboration with the 3rd Party Application servers, Unified Authentication framework to accommodate various category of devices and services, enhanced user privacy, and secured the new service based core network architecture. Further, 3GPP is investigating the enhancements to the 5G security aspects to support longer security key lengths, False Base station detection and wireless backhaul in the Phase-2 of 5G standardization [2]. This paper provides the key enhancements specified by the 3GPP for 5G system, particularly the differences to the 4G system and the rationale behind the decisions.

A MATHEMATICAL TRUST MODEL TO ENSURE IN THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Мадина Усенбай ◽  
Акмарал Иманбаева
Keyword(s):  
Trust Model ◽  
Time Parameter ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Cloud Technology ◽  
Secret Information ◽  
Dynamic Objects

Конфиденциальность является одним из важных параметров для повышения безопасности в сети, цель которого - сохранить секретную информацию. Рассмотрена модель доверия, состоящая из текущих и прошлых оценок на основе репутации объекта в сети. В модели используется параметр времени для защиты конфиденциальности пользователя для статических и динамических объектов, например, в IoT или облачной технологии. Confidentiality is one of the important parameters for increasing security on the network, the coal of which is to keep secret information. A trust model consisting of current and past assessments based on the object reputation in the network is considered. The model uses a time parameter to protect user privacy for static and dynamic objects, for example, in IoT or cloud technology.

Tracing or Tracking? A Preliminary Analysis of COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker Apps on Android and User Privacy (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Akinbi ◽  
Ehizojie Ojie
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Android Apps ◽  
User Data

BACKGROUND Technology using digital contact tracing apps has the potential to slow the spread of COVID-19 outbreaks by recording proximity events between individuals and alerting people who have been exposed. However, there are concerns about the abuse of user privacy rights as such apps can be repurposed to collect private user data by service providers and governments who like to gather their citizens’ private data. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to conduct a preliminary analysis of 34 COVID-19 trackers Android apps used in 29 individual countries to track COVID-19 symptoms, cases, and provide public health information. METHODS We identified each app’s AndroidManifest.xml resource file and examined the dangerous permissions requested by each app. RESULTS The results in this study show 70.5% of the apps request access to user location data, 47% request access to phone activities including the phone number, cellular network information, and the status of any ongoing calls. 44% of the apps request access to read from external memory storage and 2.9% request permission to download files without notification. 17.6% of the apps initiate a phone call without giving the user option to confirm the call. CONCLUSIONS The contributions of this study include a description of these dangerous permissions requested by each app and its effects on user privacy. We discuss principles that must be adopted in the development of future tracking and contact tracing apps to preserve the privacy of users and show transparency which in turn will encourage user participation.

scholarly journals A New Application-Aware No-Reference Quality Assessment Method for IP Voice Services

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Péter Orosz ◽  
Tamás Tóthfalusi
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Reference Source ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Estimation Model ◽  
Full Reference ◽  
Reference Quality ◽  
The Voice

AbstractThe increasing number of Voice over LTE deployments and IP-based voice services raise the demand for their user-centric service quality monitoring. This domain’s leading challenge is measuring user experience quality reliably without performing subjective assessments or applying the standard full-reference objective models. While the former is time- and resource-consuming and primarily executed ad-hoc, the latter depends upon a reference source and processes the voice payload that may offend user privacy. This paper presents a packet-level measurement method (introducing a novel metric set) to objectively assess network and service quality online. It is accomplished without inspecting the voice payload and needing the reference voice sample. The proposal has three contributions: (i) our method focuses on the timeliness of the media traffic. It introduces new performance metrics that describe and measure the service’s time-domain behavior from the voice application viewpoint. (ii) Based on the proposed metrics, we also present a no-reference Quality of Experience (QoE) estimation model. (iii) Additionally, we propose a new method to identify the pace of the speech (slow or dynamic) as long as voice activity detection (VAD) is present between the endpoints. This identification supports the introduced quality model to estimate the perceived quality with higher accuracy. The performance of the proposed model is validated against a full-reference voice quality estimation model called AQuA, using real VoIP traffic (originated in assorted voice samples) in controlled transmission scenarios.

scholarly journals Towards a new era of mass data collection: Assessing pandemic surveillance technologies to preserve user privacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 120681
Author(s):  
Samuel Ribeiro-Navarrete ◽  
Jose Ramon Saura ◽  
Daniel Palacios-Marqués
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
New Era ◽  
Mass Data

scholarly journals Lattice-based remote user authentication from reusable fuzzy signature

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Yangguang Tian ◽  
Yingjiu Li ◽  
Robert H. Deng ◽  
Binanda Sengupta ◽  
Guomin Yang
Keyword(s):  
Communication Channel ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Remote User Authentication ◽  
Security Models ◽  
Authentication Server ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Remote User

In this paper, we introduce a new construction of reusable fuzzy signature based remote user authentication that is secure against quantum computers. We investigate the reusability of fuzzy signature, and we prove that the fuzzy signature schemes provide biometrics reusability (aka. reusable fuzzy signature). We define formal security models for the proposed construction, and we prove that it achieves user authenticity and user privacy. The proposed construction ensures: 1) a user’s biometrics can be securely reused in remote user authentication; 2) a third party having access to the communication channel between a user and the authentication server cannot identify the user.

The Protection of User Preference Privacy in Personalized Information Retrieval: Challenges and Overviews

Libri ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zongda Wu ◽  
Chenglang Lu ◽  
Youlin Zhao ◽  
Jian Xie ◽  
Dongdong Zou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
User Preference ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Algorithm Efficiency ◽  
Important Study ◽  
Basic Reference ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
Technical Features

Abstract This paper reviews a large number of research achievements relevant to user privacy protection in an untrusted network environment, and then analyzes and evaluates their application limitations in personalized information retrieval, to establish the conditional constraints that an effective approach for user preference privacy protection in personalized information retrieval should meet, thus providing a basic reference for the solution of this problem. First, based on the basic framework of a personalized information retrieval platform, we establish a complete set of constraints for user preference privacy protection in terms of security, usability, efficiency, and accuracy. Then, we comprehensively review the technical features for all kinds of popular methods for user privacy protection, and analyze their application limitations in personalized information retrieval, according to the constraints of preference privacy protection. The results show that personalized information retrieval has higher requirements for users’ privacy protection, i.e., it is required to comprehensively improve the security of users’ preference privacy on the untrusted server-side, under the precondition of not changing the platform, algorithm, efficiency, and accuracy of personalized information retrieval. However, all kinds of existing privacy methods still cannot meet the above requirements. This paper is an important study attempt to the problem of user preference privacy protection of personalized information retrieval, which can provide a basic reference and direction for the further study of the problem.

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 105679
Author(s):  
Zongda Wu ◽  
Shigen Shen ◽  
Xinze Lian ◽  
Xinning Su ◽  
Enhong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Text Information ◽  
Text Information Retrieval

scholarly journals “Chatty Devices” and edge-based activity classification

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Lakoju ◽  
Amir Javed ◽  
Omer Rana ◽  
Pete Burnap ◽  
Samuelson T. Atiba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
Product Use ◽  
Edge Based

AbstractWith increasing automation of manufacturing processes (focusing on technologies such as robotics and human-robot interaction), there is a realisation that the manufacturing process and the artefacts/products it produces can be better connected post-production. Built on this requirement, a “chatty" factory involves creating products which are able to send data back to the manufacturing/production environment as they are used, whilst still ensuring user privacy. The intended use of a product during design phase may different significantly from actual usage. Understanding how this data can be used to support continuous product refinement, and how the manufacturing process can be dynamically adapted based on the availability of this data provides a number of opportunities. We describe how data collected on product use can be used to: (i) classify product use; (ii) associate a label with product use using unsupervised learning—making use of edge-based analytics; (iii) transmission of this data to a cloud environment where labels can be compared across different products of the same type. Federated learning strategies are used on edge devices to ensure that any data captured from a product can be analysed locally (ensuring data privacy).

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