Title
A privacy-preserving approach to prevent feature disclosure in an IoT scenario.
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving approach to prevent feature disclosure in a multiple IoT scenario, i.e., a scenario where objects can be organized in (partially overlapped) networks interacting with each other. Our approach is based on two notions derived from database theory, namely k-anonymity and t-closeness. They are applied to cluster the involved objects in order to provide a unitary view of them and of their features. Indeed, the use of k-anonymity and t-closeness makes derived groups robust from a privacy perspective. In this way, not only information disclosure, but also feature disclosure, is prevented. This is an important strength of our approach because the malicious analysis of objects’ features can have disruptive effects on the privacy (and, ultimately, on the life) of people.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.future.2019.12.017
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Privacy-preserving approach,Internet of Things,Feature disclosure prevention,Multi-IoTs scenario,Object grouping scheme for privacy management
Computer security,Computer science,Internet of Things,Unitary state,Database theory,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
105
0167-739X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Serena Nicolazzo1499.57
Antonino Nocera231927.82
Domenico Ursino3897104.96
Luca Virgili455.17