Publications related to Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)

Machine Learning Security Against Data Poisoning: Are We There Yet?

Poisoning attacks compromise the training data utilized to train machine learning (ML) models, diminishing their overall performance, manipulating predictions on specific test samples, and implanting backdoors. This article thoughtfully explores these atta ...

Ieee Computer Soc2024

PRO-Face C: Privacy-Preserving Recognition of Obfuscated Face via Feature Compensation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, Xiao Pu, Yao Zhang, Hongbo Li

The advancement of face recognition technology has delivered substantial societal advantages. However, it has also raised global privacy concerns due to the ubiquitous collection and potential misuse of individuals' facial data. This presents a notable par ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Opacité et transparence dans le design d'un dispositif de surveillance urbain : le cas de l'IMSI catcher

Félicien Michel Marie Goguey

This thesis assesses the surveillance operated on the mobile phone network by governmental actors (intelligence agencies, police, army) and the relationship between monitored spaces and their users. Indeed, some new surveillance devices used by intelligenc ...

EPFL2022

Catch Me If You Can Designing a Disobedient Object to Protest Against GSM Surveillance

Félicien Michel Marie Goguey

In this article, I discuss the process of designing an object to protest against a specific surveillance device: the IMSI catcher, a controversial object used to monitor GSM networks. Being widely used in protests, I develop a tactical approach based on ob ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Closing Leaks: Routing Against Crosstalk Side-Channel Attacks

Mirjana Stojilovic, Seyedeh Sharareh Mirzargar, Zeinab Seifoori

This paper presents an extension to PathFinder FPGA routing algorithm, which enables it to deliver FPGA designs free from risks of crosstalk attacks. Crosstalk side-channel attacks are a real threat in large designs assembled from various IPs, where some I ...

2020

Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos

This paper presents the first Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition (KBOC) organized to establish a reproducible baseline in person authentication using keystroke biometrics. The competition has been developed using the BEAT platform and includes one of ...

2016

On global regularity for systems of nonlinear wave equations with the null-condition

Joachim Krieger, Aparajita Dasgupta, Can Gao

In this note we combine a recent result by Geba [2] on the local wellposedness theory of systems of nonlinear wave equations with

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null-form structure with the classical Penrose compactification method to obtain a new small data global existence resul ...

International Press2015

Secret Communication Over Broadcast Erasure Channels With State-Feedback

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, László Czap, Vinod Malathidevi Prabhakaran

We consider a 1-to-K communication scenario, where a source transmits private messages to K receivers through a broadcast erasure channel, and the receivers feedback strictly, causally, and publicly their channel states after each transmission. We explore ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

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

The Limits of Composable Crypto with Transferable Setup Devices

Serge Vaudenay, Miyako Ohkubo

UC security realized with setup devices imposes that single instances of these setups are used. In most cases, UC-realization relies further on other properties of the setups devices, like tamper-resistance. But what happens in stronger versions of the UC ...

ACM2015

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

Fine-grained disclosure control for app ecosystems

Christoph Koch

The modern computing landscape contains an increasing number of app ecosystems, where users store personal data on platforms such as Facebook or smartphones. APIs enable third-party applications (apps) to utilize that data. A key concern associated with ap ...

ACM Press2013

MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task: Warping-based Privacy Protection Tool

Touradj Ebrahimi

In this paper, we describe EPFL privacy protection tool submitted to the MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces and other personal items of people in the provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. ...

2013

MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy Task: Applying Transform-domain Scrambling to Automatically Detected Faces

Touradj Ebrahimi, Aleksei Triastcyn

In this paper, we describe our approach and discuss evaluation results for the MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces of people visible in provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. We also additio ...

2012

Quantifying Location Privacy

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos

It is a well-known fact that the progress of personal communication devices leads to serious concerns about privacy in general, and location privacy in particular. As a response to these issues, a number of Location-Privacy Protection Mechanisms (LPPMs) ha ...

Ieee Computer Soc Press, Customer Service Center, Po Box 3014, 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, Ca 90720-1264 Usa2011

Evaluating the Privacy Risk of Location-Based Services

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Reza Shokri

In modern mobile networks, users increasingly share their location with third-parties in return for location-based services. In this way, users obtain services customized to their location. Yet, such communications leak location information about users. Ev ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011

Tracking Games in Mobile Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

Users of mobile networks can change their identifiers in regions called mix zones in order to defeat the attempt of third parties to track their location. Mix zones must be deployed carefully in the network to reduce the cost they induce on mobile users an ...

Springer-Verlag New York Inc2010

System and Method for Measuring Performances of Surveillance Systems

Alexandre Massoud Alahi

A computer implemented method measures a performance of surveillance system. A site model, a sensor model and a traffic model are selected respectively from a set of site models, a set of sensor models, and a set of traffic models to form a surveillance mo ...

2008

Model-based synthesis of band moire images for authenticating security documents and valuable products

Roger Hersch, Sylvain Chosson

The present invention relies on a band moiré image layout model capable of predicting the band moiré image layer layout produced when superposing a base band grating layer of a given layout and revealing line grating layer of a given layout. Both the base ...

2006

The current signal in Spark Assisted Chemical Engraving (SACE), what does it tell us ?

Hannes Bleuler, Rolf Wüthrich, Ulrich Spälter

Spark-assisted chemical engraving (SACE) is a promising micro-machining technology for the low-cost machining of holes and channels in non-conducting materials, such as glass and some ceramics. Despite the complexity of SACE due to the interdependency of t ...

2006