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Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analysis on Ubiquitous Health Data

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Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2011)

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In this work, we consider ubiquitous health data generated from wearable sensors in a Ubiquitous Health Monitoring System (UHMS) and examine how these data can be used within privacy- preserving distributed statistical analysis. To this end, we propose a secure multi-party computation based on a privacy-preserving cryptographic protocol that accepts as input current or archived values of users’ wearable sensors. We describe a prototype implementation of the proposed solution with a community of independent personal agents and present preliminary results that confirm the viability of the approach.

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus, 67100, Xanthi, Greece

    George Drosatos & Pavlos S. Efraimidis

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  1. School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Plymouth, UK

    Steven Furnell

  2. Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 18532, Piraeus, Greece

    Costas Lambrinoudakis

  3. Department of Management Information Systems, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany

    GĂĽnther Pernul

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Drosatos, G., Efraimidis, P.S. (2011). Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analysis on Ubiquitous Health Data. In: Furnell, S., Lambrinoudakis, C., Pernul, G. (eds) Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business. TrustBus 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6863. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22890-2_3

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