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Suspicious Android apps leaking private information

...the Android marketplace allow a third-party application access to sensitive or private information, according to a report released on Tuesday. Some of the apps... Read more

23 June, 2010 by Elinor Mills
Optimally Robust <endeca_term>Private Information</endeca_term> Retrieval

Optimally Robust Private Information Retrieval

The authors give a protocol for multi-server information-theoretic private information retrieval which achieves the theoretical limit for Byzantine robustness. That is... Read more

22 February, 2012
Extended Combinatorial Constructions for Peer-to-Peer User-<endeca_term>Private Information</endeca_term> Retrieval

Extended Combinatorial Constructions for Peer-to-Peer User-Private Information Retrieval

The authors consider User-Private Information Retrieval (UPIR), an interesting alternative to Private Information Retrieval (PIR) introduced... Read more

12 December, 2011
Data confidential: Keeping <endeca_term>private information</endeca_term> safe

Data confidential: Keeping private information safe

Getting data protection right is important. Data loss can lead to a serious loss of customer confidence, which, in some... Read more

13 December, 2011
Data Transformation Technique for Protecting <endeca_term>Private Information</endeca_term> in Privacy Preserving Data Mining

Data Transformation Technique for Protecting Private Information in Privacy Preserving Data Mining

Data mining is the process of extracting patterns from data. Data mining is seen as an increasingly important tool by... Read more

1 November, 2010
<endeca_term>Private Information</endeca_term> Disclosure From Web Searches

Private Information Disclosure From Web Searches

As the amount of personal information stored at remote service providers increases, so does the danger of data theft.... Read more

7 July, 2010

MPs call for Google to block privacy-breaching results

...privacy injunctions, MPs and peers have said. Search engines should filter out private information protected by a court injunction so that UK viewers cannot see... Read more

27 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Google settles with FTC over Buzz privacy issues

...privacy practices, settling allegations that its Buzz platform initially shared too much private information Read more

31 March, 2011 by Declan McCullagh
Web Information Management With Access Control

Web Information Management With Access Control

The authors investigate the problem of sharing private information on the Web, where the information is hosted on different machines... Read more

12 June, 2011
Model for a Common Notion of Privacy Leakage on Public Database

Model for a Common Notion of Privacy Leakage on Public Database

Privacy is an increasingly important aspect of data publishing services. If personal private information is leaked from the data, the service will be regarded as... Read more

30 March, 2011
Efficient Provably-Secure Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes

Efficient Provably-Secure Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes

A hierarchical key assignment scheme is a method to assign some private information and encryption keys to a set of classes in a partially... Read more

1 January, 2011
HTTPOS: Sealing Information Leaks With Browser-Side Obfuscation of Encrypted Flows

HTTPOS: Sealing Information Leaks With Browser-Side Obfuscation of Encrypted Flows

Leakage of private information from web applications - even when the traffic is encrypted - is a... Read more

3 December, 2010
PROVIDENCE: A Framework for Private Data Propagation Control in Service-Oriented Systems

PROVIDENCE: A Framework for Private Data Propagation Control in Service-Oriented Systems

As data integration proliferates, private information can be spread across the system extensively. Striving for protection of... Read more

3 December, 2010
pCloud: A Distributed System for Practical PIR

pCloud: A Distributed System for Practical PIR

computational Private Information Retrieval (cPIR) protocols allow a client to retrieve one bit from... Read more

23 June, 2010
Protect data: Best practice for secure information

Protect data: Best practice for secure information

Keeping corporate and private information secure doesn’t have to be difficult, and this Symantec.cloud... Read more

7 February, 2012

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