Challenges of protecting confidentiality in social media data and their ethical import

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityChallenges of protecting confidentiality in social media data and their ethical importArianna Rossi, Mónica P Arenas, Emre Kocyigit, Moad HaniAbstract:This article discusses the challenges of pseudonymizing unstructured, noisy social media data for cybersecurity research purposes and presents an open-source package developed to pseudonymize personal and confidential information (i.e., personal names, … Continued

A Secure Authentication Protocol for Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors using Homomorphic Encryption

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityA Secure Authentication Protocol for Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors using Homomorphic EncryptionMónica P. Arenas, Muhammed Ali Bingol, Hüseyin Demirci, Georgios Fotiadis, Gabriele LenziniAbstract:Sometimes fingerprint-like features are found in a material. The exciting discovery poses new challenges on how to use the features to build an object authentication protocol that could tell … Continued

Conciseness, interest, and unexpectedness: User attitudes towards infographic and comic consent mediums

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityConciseness, interest, and unexpectedness: User attitudes towards infographic and comic consent mediumsDoan Xengie Cheng, Selzer Annika, Rossi Arianna, Botes Wilhelmina Maria, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Being asked to consent to data sharing is a ubiquitous experience in digital services - yet it is very rare to encounter a well designed consent experience. Considering … Continued

Data Protection and Consenting Communication Mechanisms: Current Proposals and Challenges

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityData Protection and Consenting Communication Mechanisms: Current Proposals and Challenges Arianna Rossi, Human, Soheil, Degeling, Martin, Santos, Christiana, Pandit, Harshvardhan, Morel, Botes, Wilhelmina Maria, Jesus, Vitor, Kamara, IreneAbstract:Data Protection and Consenting Communication Mechanisms (DPCCMs) have the potential of becoming one of the most fundamental means of protecting humans’ privacy and … Continued

Autonomy and the social dilemma of online manipulative behavior

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAutonomy and the social dilemma of online manipulative behaviorMarietjie BotesAbstract:Persuasive online technologies were initially designed and used to gain insights into the online behavior of individuals to personalize advertising campaigns in an effort to influence people and convince them to buy certain products. But recently, these technologies have blurred the … Continued

Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors as Physical Unclonable Identifiers in Anti-counterfeiting

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCholesteric Spherical Reflectors as Physical Unclonable Identifiers in Anti-counterfeitingMónica P. Arenas , Hüseyin Demirci and Gabriele Lenzini Abstract:Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs) are made of droplets of cholesteric liquid crystals (the same material under the screen of our mobile phones) but molded in a spherical shape and hardened into a solid. … Continued

Visualisation Techniques for Consent: Finding Common Ground in Comic Art with Indigenous Populations

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityVisualisation Techniques for Consent: Finding Common Ground in Comic Art with Indigenous PopulationsBotes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna RossiAbstract:With emerging technologies such as genome research and the digitization of health records comes the need for new models of informed consent. In this climate of innovation people are often prone to explore the … Continued

Which Properties has an Icon? A Critical Discussion on Evaluation Methods for Standardised Data Protection Iconography

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityWhich Properties has an Icon? A Critical Discussion on Evaluation Methods for Standardised Data Protection Iconography Arianna Rossi, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Following GDPR's Article12.7's proposal to use standardized icons to inform data subject in "an easily visible, intelligible and clearly legible manner," several icon sets have been developed. In this paper, we … Continued

Back to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and Data

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityBack to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and DataBotes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna RossiAbstract:Since the myth of the tower of Babel, humankind has been concerned with the impossibility of communicating across cultures, societies, and literacy levels. Although multilingualism can solve some of these challenges, … Continued

An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification

Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAn Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity VerificationMónica P. Arenas , Hüseyin Demirci and Gabriele Lenzini Abstract:Arrays of Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs), microscopic cholesteric liquid crystals in a spherical shape, have been argued to become a game-changing technology in anti-counterfeiting. Used to build identifiable tags or coating, … Continued