A User Privacy-Preserving Algorithm in Live Streaming Cloud Platforms

2021 ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
Mande Xie ◽  
Xiaowei Sheng ◽  
Jun Shao ◽  
Guoping Zhang ◽  
Yingying Ruan
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
User Privacy

scholarly journals Privacy-preserving energy storage sharing with blockchain and secure multi-party computation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-50
Author(s):  
Nan Wang ◽  
Sid Chi-Kin Chau ◽  
Yue Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Third Party ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
External Energy ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Significant Cost Reduction ◽  
The Cost

Energy storage provides an effective way of shifting temporal energy demands and supplies, which enables significant cost reduction under time-of-use energy pricing plans. Despite its promising benefits, the cost of present energy storage remains expensive, presenting a major obstacle to practical deployment. A more viable solution to improve the cost-effectiveness is by sharing energy storage, such as community sharing, cloud energy storage and peer-to-peer sharing. However, revealing private energy demand data to an external energy storage operator may compromise user privacy, and is susceptible to data misuses and breaches. In this paper, we explore a novel approach to support energy storage sharing with privacy protection, based on privacy-preserving blockchain and secure multi-party computation. We present an integrated solution to enable privacy-preserving energy storage sharing, such that energy storage service scheduling and cost-sharing can be attained without the knowledge of individual users' demands. It also supports auditing and verification by the grid operator via blockchain. Furthermore, our privacy-preserving solution can safeguard against a majority of dishonest users, who may collude in cheating, without requiring a trusted third-party. We implemented our solution as a smart contract on real-world Ethereum blockchain platform, and provided empirical evaluation in this paper 1 .

Toward Responsible AI: An Overview of Federated Learning for User-centered Privacy-preserving Computing

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Qiang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Incentive Mechanisms ◽  
Rule Out

With the rapid advances of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and applications, an increasing concern is on the development and application of responsible AI technologies. Building AI technologies or machine-learning models often requires massive amounts of data, which may include sensitive, user private information to be collected from different sites or countries. Privacy, security, and data governance constraints rule out a brute force process in the acquisition and integration of these data. It is thus a serious challenge to protect user privacy while achieving high-performance models. This article reviews recent progress of federated learning in addressing this challenge in the context of privacy-preserving computing. Federated learning allows global AI models to be trained and used among multiple decentralized data sources with high security and privacy guarantees, as well as sound incentive mechanisms. This article presents the background, motivations, definitions, architectures, and applications of federated learning as a new paradigm for building privacy-preserving, responsible AI ecosystems.

scholarly journals An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Multiuser Cloud-Based LBS Query Scheme

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Ou ◽  
Hui Yin ◽  
Zheng Qin ◽  
Sheng Xiao ◽  
Guangyi Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Location Privacy ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Location Information ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
User Revocation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Cloud Infrastructures

Location-based services (LBSs) are increasingly popular in today’s society. People reveal their location information to LBS providers to obtain personalized services such as map directions, restaurant recommendations, and taxi reservations. Usually, LBS providers offer user privacy protection statement to assure users that their private location information would not be given away. However, many LBSs run on third-party cloud infrastructures. It is challenging to guarantee user location privacy against curious cloud operators while still permitting users to query their own location information data. In this paper, we propose an efficient privacy-preserving cloud-based LBS query scheme for the multiuser setting. We encrypt LBS data and LBS queries with a hybrid encryption mechanism, which can efficiently implement privacy-preserving search over encrypted LBS data and is very suitable for the multiuser setting with secure and effective user enrollment and user revocation. This paper contains security analysis and performance experiments to demonstrate the privacy-preserving properties and efficiency of our proposed scheme.

scholarly journals FPETD: Fault-Tolerant and Privacy-Preserving Electricity Theft Detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Siliang Dong ◽  
Zhixin Zeng ◽  
Yining Liu
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Accuracy Rate ◽  
Electricity Theft ◽  
User Data ◽  
Dimensionality Reduction Method ◽  
Better Than

Electricity theft occurs from time to time in the smart grid, which can cause great losses to the power supplier, so it is necessary to prevent the occurrence of electricity theft. Using machine learning as an electricity theft detection tool can quickly lock participants suspected of electricity theft; however, directly publishing user data to the detector for machine learning-based detection may expose user privacy. In this paper, we propose a real-time fault-tolerant and privacy-preserving electricity theft detection (FPETD) scheme that combines n -source anonymity and a convolutional neural network (CNN). In our scheme, we designed a fault-tolerant raw data collection protocol to collect electricity data and cut off the correspondence between users and their data, thereby ensuring the fault tolerance and data privacy during the electricity theft detection process. Experiments have proven that our dimensionality reduction method makes our model have an accuracy rate of 92.86% for detecting electricity theft, which is much better than others.

scholarly journals Privacy-Preserving Multiple Tensor Factorization for Synthesizing Large-Scale Location Traces with Cluster-Specific Features

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-26
Author(s):  
Takao Murakami ◽  
Koki Hamada ◽  
Yusuke Kawamoto ◽  
Takuma Hatano
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Tensor Factorization ◽  
Statistical Features ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Posterior Sampling ◽  
Spatial Big Data

Abstract With the widespread use of LBSs (Location-based Services), synthesizing location traces plays an increasingly important role in analyzing spatial big data while protecting user privacy. In particular, a synthetic trace that preserves a feature specific to a cluster of users (e.g., those who commute by train, those who go shopping) is important for various geo-data analysis tasks and for providing a synthetic location dataset. Although location synthesizers have been widely studied, existing synthesizers do not provide su˚cient utility, privacy, or scalability, hence are not practical for large-scale location traces. To overcome this issue, we propose a novel location synthesizer called PPMTF (Privacy-Preserving Multiple Tensor Factorization). We model various statistical features of the original traces by a transition-count tensor and a visit-count tensor. We factorize these two tensors simultaneously via multiple tensor factorization, and train factor matrices via posterior sampling. Then we synthesize traces from reconstructed tensors, and perform a plausible deniability test for a synthetic trace. We comprehensively evaluate PPMTF using two datasets. Our experimental results show that PPMTF preserves various statistical features including cluster-specific features, protects user privacy, and synthesizes large-scale location traces in practical time. PPMTF also significantly outperforms the state-of-theart methods in terms of utility and scalability at the same level of privacy.

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