Transparency by Design in Data-Informed Research: a Collection of Information Design Patterns

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityTransparency by Design in Data-Informed Research: a Collection of Information Design PatternsRossi Arianna, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Oftentimes information disclosures describing personal data-gathering research activities are so poorly designed that participants fail to be informed and blindly agree to the terms, without grasping the rights they can exercise and the risks derived from … Continued

Can Visual Design Provide Legal Transparency? The Challenges for Successful Implementation of Icons for Data Protection

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCan Visual Design Provide Legal Transparency? The Challenges for Successful Implementation of Icons for Data ProtectionRossi Arianna, Palmirani MonicaAbstract:Design is a key player in the future of data privacy and data protection. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) established by the European Union aims to rebalance the information asymmetry between … Continued

Evaluating ambiguity of privacy indicators in a secure email app

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityEvaluating ambiguity of privacy indicators in a secure email appStojkovski Borce, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Informing laymen of security situations is a notoriously hard problem. Users are usually not cognoscenti of all the various secure and insecure situations that may arise, and this can be further worsened by certain visual indicators that instead … Continued

Making the Case for Evidence-based Standardization of Data Privacy and Data Protection Visual Indicators

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityMaking the Case for Evidence-based Standardization of Data Privacy and Data Protection Visual IndicatorsRossi Arianna, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Lately, icons have witnessed a growing wave of interest in the view of enhancing transparency and clarity of data processing practices in mandated disclosures. Although benefits in terms of comprehensibility, noticeability, navigability of the … Continued

Systematization of threats and requirements for private messaging with untrusted servers. The case of E-mailing and instant

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecuritySystematization of threats and requirements for private messaging with untrusted servers. The case of E-mailing and instantSymeonidis Iraklis, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Modern email and instant messaging applications often offer private communications. In doing so, they share common concerns about how security and privacy can be compromised, how they should face similar threats, … Continued

SC2Share: Smart Contract for Secure Car Sharing

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecuritySC2Share: Smart Contract for Secure Car SharingAkash Madhusudan, Symeonidis Iraklis, A. Mustafa Mustafa, Preneel Bart, Zhang RenAbstract:This paper presents an efficient solution for the booking and payments functionality of a car sharing system that allows individuals to share their personal, underused cars in a completely decentralized manner, annulling the need … Continued

Towards Systematic Specification of Non-Functional Requirements for Sharing Economy Services

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityTowards Systematic Specification of Non-Functional Requirements for Sharing Economy ServicesIraklis Symeonidis ; Jessica Schroers ; Mustafa A. Mustafa ; Gergely BiczókAbstract:Sharing Economy (SE) systems use technologies to enable sharing of physical assets and services among individuals. This allows optimisation of resources, thus contributing to the re-use principle of Circular Economy. … Continued

Analysis and Design of Privacy-Enhancing Information Sharing Systems

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAnalysis and Design of Privacy-Enhancing Information Sharing SystemsSymeonidis IraklisAbstract:Recent technological advancements have enabled the collection of large amounts of personal data of individuals at an ever-increasing rate. Service providers, organisations and governments can collect or otherwise acquire rich information about individuals' everyday lives and habits from big data-silos, enabling profiling … Continued

Collateral damage of Facebook third-party applications: a comprehensive study

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCollateral damage of Facebook third-party applications: a comprehensive studyIraklis Symeonidis, Gergely Biczók, Fatemeh Shirazi, Cristina Pérez-Solà, Jessica Schroers, Bart PreneelaAbstract:Third-party applications on Facebook can collect personal data of the users who install them, but also of their friends. This raises serious privacy issues as these friends are not notified by … Continued

SePCAR: A Secure and Privacy-Enhancing Protocol for Car Access Provision

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecuritySePCAR: A Secure and Privacy-Enhancing Protocol for Car Access ProvisionIraklis Symeonidis, Abdelrahaman Aly, Mustafa Asan Mustafa, Bart Mennink, Siemen Dhooghe, Bart PreneelAbstract:We present an efficient secure and privacy-enhancing protocol for car access provision, named SePCAR. The protocol is fully decentralised and allows users to share their cars conveniently without sacrifising … Continued