Publications tagged with Data privacy
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Publications tagged with "Data privacy"
- DetailsCampanile, L., Di Bonito, L. P., Marulli, F., Balzanella, A., & Verde, R. (2026). Toward Privacy-Aware Environmental Monitoring of CO2 and Air Pollutants in Southern Italy [Conference paper]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 15893 LNCS, 317–333. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97645-2_21
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The increasing levels of CO2 and air pollutants represent a major challenge to environmental sustainability and public health, particularly in regions characterized by complex geographic and socio-economic dynamics. This work proposes a study focused on the Southern Italy regions, where environmental vulnerabilities are displayed, along with a limited availability of high-granularity data. The main aim of this work is to build and provide a comprehensive and detailed dataset tailored to the region’s unique needs, by leveraging datasets from EDGAR for greenhouse gases and air pollutants, integrated with demographic and territorial morphology data from ISTAT. The creation of composite indicators to monitor trends in emissions and pollution on a fine spatial scale is supported by the data set. These indicators enable initial insight into spatial disparities in pollutant concentrations, offering valuable data to inform targeted policy interventions. The work provided a foundation for next analytical studies, integrating different datasets and highlighting the potential for complex spatiotemporal analysis. The study provides a robust dataset and preliminary insights, enhancing the understanding of environmental dynamics in Southern Italy. Subsequent efforts will focus on extending this methodology to more extensive geographic contexts and incorporating real-time data for adaptive monitoring. The proposed framework also lays the groundwork for privacy-aware environmental monitoring solutions, enabling future integration with edge and IoT-based architectures while addressing privacy and data protection concerns. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026. - DetailsMarulli, F., Campanile, L., Marrone, S., & Verde, L. (2024). Combining Federated and Ensemble Learning in Distributed and Cloud Environments: An Exploratory Study [Book chapter]. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, 203, 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57931-8_29
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Conventional modern Machine Learning (ML) applications involve training models in the cloud and then transferring them back to the edge, especially in an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled environment. However, privacy-related limitations on data transfer from the edge to the cloud raise challenges: among various solutions, Federated Learning (FL) could satisfy privacy related concerns and accommodate power and energy issues of edge devices. This paper proposes a novel approach that combines FL and Ensemble Learning (EL) to improve both security and privacy challenges. The presented methodology introduces an extra layer, the Federation Layer, to enhance security. It uses Bayesian Networks (BNs) to dynamically filter untrusted/unsecure federation clients. This approach presents a solution for increasing the security and robustness of FL systems, considering also privacy and performance aspects. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. - DetailsCampanile, L., Forgione, F., Mastroianni, M., Palmiero, G., & Sanghez, C. (2022). Evaluating the Impact of Data Anonymization in a Machine Learning Application [Conference paper]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13380 LNCS, 389–400. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10542-5_27
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The data protection impact assessment is used to verify the necessity, proportionality and risks of data processing. Our work is based on the data processed by the technical support of a Wireless Service Provider. The team of WISP tech support uses a machine learning system to predict failures. The goal of our the experiments was to evaluate the DPIA with personal data and without personal data. In fact, in a first scenario, the experiments were conducted using a machine learning application powered by non-anonymous personal data. Instead in the second scenario, the data was anonymized before feeding the machine learning system. In this article we evaluate how much the Data Protection Impact Assessment changes when moving from a scenario with raw data to a scenario with anonymized data. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. - DetailsCampanile, L., Cantiello, P., Iacono, M., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2021). Risk Analysis of a GDPR-Compliant Deletion Technique for Consortium Blockchains Based on Pseudonymization [Conference paper]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12956 LNCS, 3–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87010-2_1
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Blockchains provide a valid and profitable support for the implementation of trustable and secure distributed ledgers, in support to groups of subjects that are potentially competitors in conflict of interest but need to share progressive information recording processes. Blockchains prevent data stored in blocks from being altered or deleted, but there are situations in which stored information must be deleted or made inaccessible on request or periodically, such as the ones in which GDPR is applicable. In this paper we present literature solutions and design an implementation in the context of a traffic management system for the Internet of Vehicles based on the Pseudonymization/Cryptography solution, evaluating its viability, its GDPR compliance and its level of risk. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. - DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Levis, A. H., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2021). Privacy regulations, smart roads, blockchain, and liability insurance: Putting technologies to work [Article]. IEEE Security and Privacy, 19(1), 34–43. https://doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2020.3012059
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Smart streets promise widely available traffic information to help improve people’s safety. Unfortunately, gathering that data may threaten privacy. We describe an architecture that exploits a blockchain and the Internet of Vehicles and show its compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. © 2003-2012 IEEE. - DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2020). Privacy regulations challenges on data-centric and iot systems: A case study for smart vehicles [Conference paper]. IoTBDS 2020 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, 507–520. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089476036&partnerID=40&md5=c18dd73c221ec312a330521bf03d332e
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Internet of Things (IoTs) services and data-centric systems allow smart and efficient information exchanging. Anyway, even if existing IoTs and cyber security architectures are enforcing, they are still vulnerable to security issues, as unauthorized access, data breaches, intrusions. They can’t provide yet sufficiently robust and secure solutions to be applied in a straightforward way, both for ensuring privacy preservation and trustworthiness of transmitted data, evenly preventing from its fraudulent and unauthorized usage. Such data potentially include critical information about persons’ privacy (locations, visited places, behaviors, goods, anagraphic data and health conditions). So, novel approaches for IoTs and data-centric security are needed. In this work, we address IoTs systems security problem focusing on the privacy preserving issue. Indeed, after the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), privacy data protection is a mandatory requirement for systems producing and managing sensible users’ data. Starting from a case study for the Internet of Vehicles (IoVs), we performed a pilot study and DPIA assessment to analyze possible mitigation strategies for improving the compliance of IoTs based systems to GDPR requirements. Our preliminary results evidenced that the introduction of blockchains in IoTs systems architectures can improve significantly the compliance to privacy regulations. Copyright © 2020 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.