Privacy

GenAIPABench: A Benchmark for Generative AI-based Privacy Assistants

Website privacy policies are often lengthy and intricate. Privacy assistants assist in simplifying policies and making them more accessible and user-friendly. The emergence of generative AI (genAI) offers new opportunities to build privacy assistants …

GenAIPABench

GenAIPABench assesses the effectiveness of GenAIPAs across multiple dimensions including accuracy, relevance, and consistency, using a curated set of privacy-related questions and metrics. The benchmark aims to advance the development of AI privacy assistants by providing a standard evaluation framework.

GENAIPABENCH: A Benchmark for Generative AI-based Privacy Assistants

In the age of data-driven technology, privacy has emerged as a critical concern for both users and organizations. Privacy policies are widely used to outline the data management practices of a company. However, it has been demonstrated that privacy …

PrivacyLens

Framework aimed at discovering, collecting, and analyzing privacy policies of smart devices using NLP and ML algorithms, to provide insights to users, policy authors, and regulators.

PrivacyLens: A Framework to Collect and Analyze the Landscape of Past, Present, and Future Smart Device Privacy Policies

As the adoption of smart devices continues to permeate all aspects of our lives, concerns surrounding user privacy have become more pertinent than ever before. While privacy policies define the data management practices of their manufacturers, …

One-Shot Federated Group Collaborative Filtering

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) with missing-value completion is a well-known effective Collaborative Filtering (CF) method used to provide personalized user recommendations. However, traditional CF relies on a privacy-invasive collection of …

A Privacy-Enabled Platform for COVID-19 Applications

We present our experiences in adapting and deploying TIPPERS, a novel privacy-enabled IoT data collection and management system for smart spaces, to facilitate the monitoring of adherence to COVID-19 regulations in a university campus and a military …

Transitioning from testbeds to ships: an experience study in deploying the TIPPERS Internet of Things platform to the US Navy

This paper describes the collaborative effort between privacy and security researchers at nine different institutions along with researchers at the Naval Information Warfare Center to deploy, test, and demonstrate privacy-preserving technologies in …

Sieve: A Middleware Approach to Scalable Access Control for Database Management Systems

Current approaches for enforcing Fine Grained Access Control (FGAC) in DBMS do not scale to scenarios when the number of access control policies are in the order of thousands. This paper identifies such a use case in the context of emerging smart …

SemIoTic

Facilitating the development of applications in IoT spaces