The goal of privacy metrics is to measure the degree of privacy enjoyed by users in a system
and the amount of protection offered by privacy-enhancing technologies. In this way, privacy …

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 …

There is growing interest in quantitative theories of information flow in a variety of contexts,
such as secure information flow, anonymity protocols, and side-channel analysis. Such …

Smart grid privacy encompasses the privacy of information extracted by analysing smart
metering data. In this paper, we suggest that home electrical power routing can be used to …

This paper addresses the problem of assessing nicotine dependence. The main objective is
to develop theory‐led suggestions for measures that will be relevant in the early phases of …

This paper introduces g-leakage, a rich generalization of the min-entropy model of
quantitative information flow. In g-leakage, the benefit that an adversary derives from a …

This paper investigates the relation between three different notions of privacy: identifiability,
differential privacy, and mutual-information privacy. Under a unified privacydistortion …

Electronic voting promises the possibility of a convenient, efficient and secure facility for
recording and tallying votes in an election. Recently highlighted inadequacies of …

In this paper, we design user-centric obfuscation mechanisms that impose the minimum
utility loss for guaranteeing user's privacy. We optimize utility subject to a joint guarantee of …

A smart meter (SM) measures a consumer's electricity consumption and reports it
automatically to a utility provider (UP) in almost real time. Despite many advantages of SMs …