| dc.description.abstract | The growth of the Internet and the pervasiveness of Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) have led to a radical
change in our society, a deep economical, commercial and social
impact on our lives. To date, most of our lives takes place online
where algorithms shape and guide our behaviour and the governance
of our societies.
One of the drawbacks of this change is an increased risk for Internet
users about their personal information privacy. Indeed an
enormous amount of data is being generated and disseminated by
people at high pace, often without knowing who is recording what
about them. Online browsing, banking, shopping, social network
interactions, and any type of online economic, social, personal
collaboration and communication could undermine the individuals’
privacy due to a variety of factors that include not only the
frightening increase of information leakage. Indeed, specific private
information can be also inferred/extracted via computational
heuristics applied on data (apparently unrelated to such information)
users voluntarily disclose on the Internet.
In particular, such privacy leaks can be caused by both (a)
applications or software users intentionally use unaware of the related
risks, and (b) malicious (illegal or unfair) practices stealthy
perpetrated by “adversaries”. Therefore, securing private data,
devices and user’s privacy in the digital society has become an
utmost concern for individuals, business organizations, national
governments and researchers. ... [edited by Author] | it_IT |
