• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1272-1290
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• 2013

Privacy-preserving collaborative filtering schemes are becoming increasingly popular because they handle the information overload problem without jeopardizing privacy. However, they may be susceptible to shilling or profile injection attacks, similar to traditional recommender systems without privacy measures. Although researchers have proposed various privacy-preserving recommendation frameworks, it has not been shown that such schemes are resistant to profile injection attacks. In this study, we investigate two memory-based privacy-preserving collaborative filtering algorithms and analyze their robustness against several shilling attack strategies. We first design and apply formerly proposed shilling attack techniques to privately collected databases. We analyze their effectiveness in manipulating predicted recommendations by experimenting on real data-based benchmark data sets. We show that it is still possible to manipulate the predictions significantly on databases consisting of masked preferences even though a few of the attack strategies are not effective in a privacy-preserving environment.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1785-1792
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• 2017

Generally, big data contains sensitive information about individuals, and thus directly releasing it for public use may violate existing privacy requirements. Therefore, privacy-preserving data publishing (PPDP) has been actively researched to share big data containing personal information for public use, while protecting the privacy of individuals with minimal data modification. Recently, with increasing demand for big data sharing in various area, there is also a growing interest in the development of software which supports a privacy-preserving data publishing. Thus, in this paper, we develops the system which aims to effectively and efficiently support privacy-preserving data publishing. In particular, the system developed in this paper enables data owners to select the appropriate anonymization level by providing them the information loss matrix. Furthermore, the developed system is able to achieve a high performance in data anonymization by using distributed Hadoop clusters.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.105-111
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• 2010

We propose a practical privacy-preserving clustering protocol over horizontally partitioned data. We extend the DBSCAN clustering algorithm into a distributed protocol in which data providers mix real data with fake data to provide privacy. Our privacy-preserving clustering protocol is very efficient whereas the previous privacy-preserving protocols in the distributed environments are not practical to be used in real applications. The efficiency of our privacy-preserving clustering protocol over horizontally partitioned data is comparable with those of privacy-preserving clustering protocols in the non-distributed environments.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.9
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• pp.43-49
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• 2019

Today, with the development of the internet of things, wearable devices related to personal health care have become widespread. Various global information and communication technology companies are developing various wearable health devices, which can collect personal health information such as heart rate, steps, and calories, using sensors built into the device. However, since individual health data includes sensitive information, the collection of irrelevant health data can lead to personal privacy issue. Therefore, there is a growing need to develop technology for collecting sensitive health data from wearable health devices, while preserving privacy. In recent years, local differential privacy (LDP), which enables sensitive data collection while preserving privacy, has attracted much attention. In this paper, we develop a technology for collecting vast amount of health data from a smartwatch device, which is one of popular wearable health devices, using local difference privacy. Experiment results with real data show that the proposed method is able to effectively collect sensitive health data from smartwatch users, while preserving privacy.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 2013

The research on data mining that can manage a large amount of information efficiently has grown with the drastic increment of information. Privacy-preserving data mining can protect the privacy of data owners. There are several privacy-preserving association rule, clustering and classification protocols. A privacy-preserving association rule protocol is used to find association rules among data, which is often used for marketing. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving k-bits inner product protocol based on Shamir's secret sharing.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.101-108
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• 2015

Location-sharing based service (LSBS) refers to a service that users share their location information with other users with whom friendship. At this time, the location information is shared through service provider, and then their position information is exposed to the service provider. The exposure of this personal position information to the service provider has raised a privacy problem, and thus privacy preserving mechanisms have been proposed to protect them. In this paper, we examine the types and features of the proposed location-sharing based services so far, and survey the research trend of privacy preserving mechanisms for them. Through the analysis on existing privacy preserving mechanisms, we present design factors for a privacy preserving mechanism for the current LSBS services, and suggest future work.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.99-106
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• 2023

Now a days, large volumes of data is accumulating in every field due to increase in capacity of storage devices. These large volumes of data can be applied with data mining for finding useful patterns which can be used for business growth, improving services, improving health conditions etc. Data from different sources can be combined before applying data mining. The data thus gathered can be misused for identity theft, fake credit/debit card transactions, etc. To overcome this, data mining techniques which provide privacy are required. There are several privacy preserving data mining techniques available in literature like randomization, perturbation, anonymization etc. This paper proposes an Enhanced Hybrid Privacy Preserving Data Mining(EHPPDM) technique. The proposed technique provides more privacy of data than existing techniques while providing better classification accuracy. The experimental results show that classification accuracies have increased using EHPPDM technique.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.2948-2966
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• 2014

To promote recommendation services through prediction quality, some privacy-preserving collaborative filtering solutions are proposed to make e-commerce parties collaborate on partitioned data. It is almost probable that two parties hold ratings for the same users and items simultaneously; however, existing two-party privacy-preserving collaborative filtering solutions do not cover such overlaps. Since rating values and rated items are confidential, overlapping ratings make privacy-preservation more challenging. This study examines how to estimate predictions privately based on partitioned data with overlapped entries between two e-commerce companies. We consider both user-based and item-based collaborative filtering approaches and propose novel privacy-preserving collaborative filtering schemes in this sense. We also evaluate our schemes using real movie dataset, and the empirical outcomes show that the parties can promote collaborative services using our schemes.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.45-52
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• 2018

With the advent of BCI technology in recent years, various BCI products have been released. BCI technology enables brain information to be transmitted directly to a computer, and it will bring a lot of convenience to life. However, there is a problem with information protection. In particular, EEG data can raise issues about personal privacy. Collecting and analyzing big data on EEG reports raises serious concerns about personal information exposure. In this paper, we propose a secure privacy-preserving BCI model in a big data environment. The proposed model could prevent personal identification and protect EEG data in the cloud environment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.450-470
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• 2023

Traditional cloud computing faces some challenges such as huge energy consumption, network delay and single point of failure. Edge computing is a typical distributed processing platform which includes multiple edge servers closer to the users, thus is more robust and can provide real-time computing services. Although outsourcing data to edge servers can bring great convenience, it also brings serious security threats. In order to provide image retrieval while ensuring users' data privacy, a privacy preserving image retrieval scheme in edge environment is proposed. Considering the distributed characteristics of edge computing environment and the requirement for lightweight computing, we present a privacy-preserving image retrieval scheme in edge computing environment, which two or more "honest but curious" servers retrieve the image quickly and accurately without divulging the image content. Compared with other traditional schemes, the scheme consumes less computing resources and has higher computing efficiency, which is more suitable for resource-constrained edge computing environment. Experimental results show the algorithm has high security, retrieval accuracy and efficiency.