Publications related to Privacy software

P3LI5: Practical and confidEntial Lawful Interception on the 5G core

Lawful Interception (LI) is a legal obligation of Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to provide interception capabilities to Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in order to gain insightful data from network communications for criminal proceedings, e.g., ne ...

IEEE2023

Protecting privacy through metadata analysis

Sandra Deepthy Siby

Although encryption hides the content of communications from third parties, metadata, i.e., the information attached to the content (such as the size or timing of communication) can be a rich source of details and context. In this dissertation, we demonstr ...

EPFL2022

Generating Higher-Fidelity Synthetic Datasets with Privacy Guarantees

Boi Faltings, Aleksei Triastcyn

We consider the problem of enhancing user privacy in common data analysis and machine learning development tasks, such as data annotation and inspection, by substituting the real data with samples from a generative adversarial network. We propose employing ...

MDPI2022

Inpainting in Omnidirectional Images for Privacy Protection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Pinar Akyazi

Privacy protection is drawing more attention with the advances in image processing, visual and social media. Photo sharing is a popular activity, which also brings the concern of regulating permissions associated with shared content. This paper presents a ...

2019

A Truthful, Privacy-Preserving, Approximately Efficient Combinatorial Auction For Single-minded Bidders

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Sankarshan Damle

Combinatorial auctions are widely used to sell resources/items. The challenges in such auctions are multi-fold. We need to ensure that bidders, the strategic agents, bid their valuations truthfully to the auction mechanism. Besides, the agents may desire p ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Protecting Privacy and Security of Genomic Data in i2b2 with Homomorphic Encryption and Differential Privacy

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jean Louis Raisaro, Gwangbae Choi, Nathalie Jacquemont, Nicolas Rosat

Re-use of patients’ health records can provide tremendous benefits for clinical research. Yet, when researchers need to access sensitive/identifying data, such as genomic data, in order to compile cohorts of well-characterized patients for specific studies ...

IEEE2018

Impact of Mini-drone based Video Surveillance on Invasion of Privacy

Touradj Ebrahimi, Margherita Bonetto

An increase in adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of daily lives, raises public concern about an intrusion into individual privacy. New sensing and surveillance technologies, such as mini-drones, threaten to eradicate boundaries of priv ...

2015

Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing based on a Public Key Infrastructure

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, David Mc Nally

A significant number of pictures are posted to social media sites or exchanged through instant messaging and cloud-based sharing services. Most social media services offer a range of access control mechanisms to protect users privacy. As it is not in the b ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Privacy in Mini-drone Based Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Margherita Bonetto

Mini-drones are increasingly used in video surveillance. Their areal mobility and ability to carry video cameras provide new perspectives in visual surveillance which can impact privacy in ways that have not been considered in a typical surveillance scenar ...

2015

Towards optimal distortion-based visual privacy filters

Touradj Ebrahimi

The widespread usage of digital video surveillance systems has increased the concerns for privacy violation. Since video surveillance systems are invasive, it is a challenge to find an acceptable balance between privacy of the public under surveillance and ...

2014

MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy Task: Geometrical Privacy Protection Tool

Touradj Ebrahimi

This paper describes EPFL privacy protection tool for the MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces, body silhouettes, and personal items of people in the provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. Th ...

2014

Privacy Enhanced Demand Response with Reputation-based Incentive Distribution

Karl Aberer, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Matteo Vasirani, Georgios Liassas

Demand response (DR) is a Smart Grid application that aims at managing consumption of electricity in response to supply-side signals. The exchange of sensitive information (i.e., electricity consumption data) between the consumers and the DR provider is ne ...

2014

UHD Video Dataset for Evaluation of Privacy

Touradj Ebrahimi

Ultra High Definition (UHD) is one of the emerging immersive video technologies already available to public, as even some of the smartphones are capable of capturing UHD video. The increasingly widespread availability of UHD capable recording devices has i ...

2014

Subjective Study of Privacy Filters in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone

Extensive adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of the daily life, alarms the concerned public about the increasing invasion into personal privacy. Therefore, to address privacy issues, many tools have been proposed for protection of perso ...

Ieee2012

Crowdsourcing Approach for Evaluation of Privacy Filters in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi

Extensive adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of the daily life, alarms the concerned public about the increasing invasion into personal privacy. To address these concerns, many tools have been proposed for protection of personal privacy ...

2012

A Framework for the Validation of Privacy Protection Solutions in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux

The issue of privacy protection in video surveillance has drawn a lot of interest lately. However, thorough performance analysis and validation is still lacking, especially regarding the fulfillment of privacy-related requirements. In this paper, we put fo ...

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Privacy-Preserving Multi-agent Constraint Satisfaction

Boi Faltings, Thomas Léauté

Constraint satisfaction has been a very successful paradigm for solving problems such as resource allocation and planning. Many of these problems pose themselves in a context involving multiple agents, and protecting privacy of information among them is of ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2009

Traceable Privacy of Recent Provably-Secure RFID Protocols

Khaled Ouafi

One of the main challenges in RFIDs is the design of privacy-preserving authentication protocols. Indeed, such protocols should not only allow legitimate readers to authenticate tags but also protect these latter from privacy-violating attacks, ensuring th ...

Springer2008

Securing Vehicular Communications - Assumptions, Requirements, and Principles

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos

Among civilian communication systems, vehicular networks emerge as one of the most convincing and yet most challenging instantiations of the mobile ad hoc networking technology. Towards the deployment of vehicular communication systems, security and privac ...

2006

A Scalable and Provably Secure Hash-Based RFID Protocol

Philippe Oechslin, Gildas Avoine

The biggest challenge for RFID technology is to provide benefits without threatening the privacy of consumers. Many solutions have been suggested but almost as many ways have been found to break them. An approach by Ohkubo, Suzuki and Kinoshita using an in ...

2005