Privacy Concerns Raised by Pervasive User Data Collection From Cyberspace and Their Countermeasures

Understand

The virtual dimension called `Cyberspace' built on internet technologies has served people's daily lives for decades.

• Now it offers advanced services and connected experiences with the developing pervasive computing technologies that digitise, collect, and analyse users' activity data.
• This changes how user information gets collected and impacts user privacy at traditional cyberspace gateways, including the devices carried by users for daily use.
• This work investigates the impacts and surveys privacy concerns caused by this data collection, namely identity tracking from browsing activities, user input data disclosure, data accessibility in mobile devices, security of delicate data transmission, privacy in participating sensing, and identity privacy in opportunistic networks.