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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Personally Identifiable Information"”.
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Transmissions of Hashed Personally Identifiable Information to Third Parties Across Websites
Many websites share users’ personal information with third-party trackers in hashed form, often claiming that hash functions provide privacy protection. Previous literature has shown this to be false by successfully re-identifying hashes of common personally identifiable information (PII). Despite …
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Prevention of personally identifiable information leakage in ecommerce using offline data minimization and online pseudonymisation.
… to e-services, one must surrender part of their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) hence making their personal data susceptible to leakage. Despite several solutions being already in use to protect PII, data leakage persists. To enhance PII protection and user privacy, the research …
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Prevention of personally identifiable information leakage in ecommerce using offline data minimization and online pseudonymisation.
… to e-services, one must surrender part of their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) hence making their personal data susceptible to leakage. Despite several solutions being already in use to protect PII, data leakage persists. To enhance PII protection and user privacy, the research …
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Cyber-Assets at Risk (CAR): Monetary Impact of Personally Identifiable Information Data Breaches on Companies
… opportunities to compromise the most sensitive information. Recent cybersecurity incidents show that a group of hackers can cause a massive data breach, resulting in companies losing competitive advantage, reputation, and money. Governments have since taken some actions in protecting individuals …
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Modeling a Longitudinal Relational Research Data System
… legislation related to SLDS and protection of personally identifiable information, SLDS design and complexity, repurposing business data warehouse systems for educational outcomes research, and the use of longitudinal research systems for education and employment outcomes. The results were …
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Curation and privacy in mobile application UI repositories
… However, mining interaction traces that contain personally identifiable information from real users presents a problem, mainly when that data is to be published. This thesis provides an exploratory look at the data curation and privacy considerations required to share mobile application …
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Me, Myself, and ID: Towards Usable, Privacy-Preserving, Fraud-Resistant Digital Identity Services for Smartphone Users
… examines the discoverability of participants' personally identifiable information (PII) to determine what information is suitable for identity proofing. We found that many different types of PII could be obtained by an imposter and that individuals significantly underestimate the risk of said …
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Privacy Research using Active OSINT Techniques
… users are typically required to provide personal information to companies and organizations in exchange for information or services. After registering, however, they are typically left in the dark about how their information is processed, stored, and shared, which has led to research efforts to …
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Improving understanding of website privacy policies
… effort in understanding how websites will use personally identifiable information (PII). The goal of these policies is to enable the user to make informed decisions about the disclosure of personal information in web-based transactions. However, these privacy policies are complex, requiring …
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Computer-assisted de-identification of free-text nursing notes
… to protect patients' privacy by removing personally identifiable information from medical records before sharing the data with other researchers. Different computer-assisted methods are evaluated for removing and replacing protected health information (PHI) from free-text nursing notes …
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Deidentification of Face Videos in Naturalistic Driving Scenarios
… it introduces challenges related to safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII). This thesis addresses the specific problem of sharing drivers' face videos for transportation research while ensuring privacy protection. To tackle this issue, we leverage recent advancements in generative …
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Exploring the Connection Between Digital Literacy and Data Privacy and Security Practices Among Early Childhood Professionals in British Columbia
… how digital literacy influences the handling of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in Early Childhood Education. The research is grounded in the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), which provides a model for understanding the factors influencing an individual's intention to perform specific …
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Development of a cloud based privacy monitoring framework for the health sector
… computing, the storage and processing of private information is done on remote machines that are not owned or even managed by the cloud consumers. This brings about significant security and data privacy concerns that impede the broader adoption of cloud computing, which compromises the vision of …
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Privacy Policy-Based Framework for Privacy Disambiguation in Distributed Systems
… development are based on the idea of protecting personally-identifiable information such as name and national insurance number, however, with the abundance of distributed systems it is becoming easier to identify people through information that is not personally-identifiable, thus increasing …
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Multidimensional Epidemiological Transformations: Addressing Location-Privacy in Public Health Practice
The ability to control one’s own personally identifiable information is a worthwhile human right that is becoming increasingly vulnerable. However just as significant, if not more so, is the right to health. With increasing globalisation and threats of natural disasters and acts of terrorism, this …
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Protecting South African companies against cybercrime: a critical analysis of the directors? duty of care in relation to cybersecurity and the use of artificial intelligence to protect companies? online meetings
… and use online databases that contain sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII), they are particularly prone to cyberattacks. Artificial Intelligence (Al) could however be used to resist cyberattacks on a company's cyberassets, such as its online platform and its online databases. …
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Design and Evaluation of an AI-Driven Pipeline for Synthetic Tabular Data Generation
… legal and ethical risks due to the presence of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Synthetic data – artificially generated data that statistically mimics real-world data without compromising PII – offers a compelling solution. However, generating realistic, high-quality tabular data is a …
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Achieving Fair Exchange and Customer Anonymity for Online Products in Electronic Commerce
… are untraceable and that the customers’ personal information is kept secret. Thus the aim of this research is to propose a protocol that provides fair exchange and anonymity to the transacting parties by making use of a Trusted Third Party. The research is also aimed at ensuring payment security …