Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 12th International Symposium, PETS 2012, Vigo, Spain, July 11-13, 2012, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (7384))

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12 th International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2012, held in Vigo, Spain, in July 2012. The 16 full papers presented were carefully selected from 72 submissions. Topics addressed include anonymization of statistics, content, and traffic, network traffic analysis, censorship-resistant systems, user profiling, training users in privacy risk management, and privacy of internet and cloud-bases services. A further highlight is the HotPETS session, designed as a venue to present existing but still preliminary and evolving ideas. Front Matter....Pages - Betrayed by Your Ads!....Pages 1-17 Private Client-Side Profiling with Random Forests and Hidden Markov Models....Pages 18-37 Understanding Statistical Disclosure: A Least Squares Approach....Pages 38-57 Website Detection Using Remote Traffic Analysis....Pages 58-78 k -Indistinguishable Traffic Padding in Web Applications....Pages 79-99 Spying in the Dark: TCP and Tor Traffic Analysis....Pages 100-119 Secure Distributed Framework for Achieving ε -Differential Privacy....Pages 120-139 Differentially Private Continual Monitoring of Heavy Hitters from Distributed Streams....Pages 140-159 Adaptive Differentially Private Histogram of Low-Dimensional Data....Pages 160-179 PRISM – Privacy-Preserving Search in MapReduce....Pages 180-200 Practical Privacy Preserving Cloud Resource-Payment for Constrained Clients....Pages 201-220 Fault-Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Statistics....Pages 221-238 Evading Censorship with Browser-Based Proxies....Pages 239-258 Exploring the Ecosystem of Referrer-Anonymizing Services....Pages 259-278 Risk Communication Design: Video vs. Text....Pages 279-298 Use Fewer Instances of the Letter “i”: Toward Writing Style Anonymization....Pages 299-318 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PETS 2014, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in July 2014.