Privacy

Tian Dong, Ziyuan Zhang, Han Qiu, Tianwei Zhang, Hewu Li, Terry Wang INFOCOM-23 Paper Review. Research Motivation and Hypothesis: •The paper proposes a novel, effective, and stealthy backdoor attack targeting dynamic multi-exit deep neural network (DNN) models. •The attack injects a backdoor into a vanilla DNN model that will only be activated when victims transform it into…

The United Nations PET Lab’s Hackathon last November demonstrated the ingenuity of privacy-enhancing technologies. The 72-hour long competition saw 196 teams, joining in from across the world, put theory into practice as they were one of the first to experiment and deal hands-on with PETs. We organised the Hackathon with…

(This micro-blog was originally posted on twitter. Click here to see the original thread) As some know, we have a saying at the North Pole — “Better privacy starts with the simple steps”. So this #DataPrivacyDay, here are 5 MORE easy habits many neglect to protect their online privacy. These…

Privacy as a Utility As the crypto landscape continues to evolve, it’s becoming more clear that privacy is a critical utility that must be integrated into the ecosystem. When blockchain was first developed, privacy wasn’t the primary concern: the bigger concern was transparency (Vitalik also brought this up in his recent paper on stealth…

Conversations about privacy, particularly in the crypto circle, will continue to pervade the scene. Perhaps, a byproduct of the underlying principle behind the workings of a blockchain, conversations about don’t seem to be going away anytime soon and the RAILGUN project is aiming to sit at the centre of it. …