Personalized Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Residential Load Forecasting by Xiaodong Qu, Chengcheng Guan, Gang Xie, Zhiyi Tian, Keshav Sood, Chaoli Sun, Lei Cui

“…However, the deep prediction model requires users to provide a large amount of private electricity consumption data, which has potential privacy risks. Edge nodes can federally train a global model through aggregation using federated learning (FL). …”
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Synthesis of electric vehicle charging data: A real-world data-driven approach by Zhi Li, Zilin Bian, Zhibin Chen, Kaan Ozbay, Minghui Zhong

“…In response, this study introduces an innovative methodology for generating large-scale and diverse EV charging data, mirroring real-world patterns for cost-efficient and privacy-compliant use. …”
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Ethical and legal considerations governing use of health data for quality improvement and performance management: a scoping review of the perspectives of health professionals and a... by Tim Shaw, Kevin Leow, Ian Kerridge, Cameron Stewart, Anna Janssen, Kavisha Shah

“…Health administrators additionally emphasised the importance of good governance and data stewardship to improving professional engagement with performance data, but privacy remains a key barrier.Conclusions The growing interest in using health data for quality improvement and performance management requires health services to address barriers to utilisation of performance data. …”
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Ethical Considerations in Emotion Recognition Research by Darlene Barker, Mukesh Kumar Reddy Tippireddy, Ali Farhan, Bilal Ahmed

“…The framework introduces structural safeguards which include data minimization, adaptive consent mechanisms, and transparent model logic as a more complete solution than privacy or fairness approaches. …”
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Relative Applicability of Diverse Automatic Speech Recognition Platforms for Transcription of Psychiatric Treatment Sessions by Rana Zeeshan, John Bogue, Mamoona Naveed Asghar

“…Although such models are good enough for most use cases, storing audio recordings in psychiatry complicates the data handling and adoption of ASR platforms in mental healthcare. …”
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Determinants of Continuous Smartwatch Use and Data-Sharing Preferences With Physicians, Public Health Authorities, and Private Companies: Cross-Sectional Survey of Smartwatch Users by Anthony James Goodings, Kayode Philip Fadahunsi, Derjung M Tarn, Jennifer Lutomski, Allison Chhor, Frances Shiely, Patrick Henn, John O'Donoghue

“…Wilcoxon signed-rank tests were used to analyze user comfort in sharing data, comparing noninternet- versus internet-based sharing methods and fully versus partially anonymized data. …”
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Sexting in young adults’ social networks in Brazil: an exploratory study on the circulation of nudes by Aroldo de Lara Cardoso Júnior, Liliana Liviano Wahba

“…Undue exposure was found to be more frequent between non-heterosexual men, which may point to a body centrality in on-line sexual practices in this group. Implications with data security and privacy were discussed and suggestions for future investigations were provided.…”
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Anonymous Authentication Scheme Based on Physically Unclonable Function and Biometrics for Smart Cities by Vincent Omollo Nyangaresi, Ahmad A. AlRababah, Ganesh Keshaorao Yenurkar, Ravikumar Chinthaginjala, Muhammad Yasir

“…However, the vulnerabilities in the underlying smart city technologies, interconnection of heterogeneous devices, and transfer of data over the open public channels expose these networks to a myriad of security and privacy threats. …”
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A Performance Analysis of VPN Technologies Used in an IoT Environment by HRITCAN, D.-F., GRAUR, A., BALAN, D. G., TIMOFTE, E. M.

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FedSW-TSAD: SWGAN-Based Federated Time Series Anomaly Detection by Xiuxian Zhang, Hongwei Zhao, Weishan Zhang, Shaohua Cao, Haoyun Sun, Baoyu Zhang

“…As distributed sensing technologies evolve, the collection of time series data is becoming increasingly decentralized, which introduces serious challenges for both model training and data privacy protection. …”
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Photography in the Age of Surveillance: Ethics and the Photographer’s Responsibility by Çeyiz MAKAL FAIRCLOUGH

“…It addresses key issues of privacy, ethics and the limits of photographic practice, particularly in relation to the potential for exploitation and voyeurism. …”
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Synthetic Financial Data: A Case Study Regarding Polish Limited Liability Companies Data by Aleksandra Szymura

“…Due to the statistical similarity with real data, they can be used instead of them. This action allows data to be shared externally while guaranteeing their privacy. …”
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Big data, big responsibilities by Primavera De Filippi

“…With the advent of cloud computing, specialised data centres with powerful computational hardware and software resources can be used for processing and analysing a humongous amount of aggregated data coming from a variety of different sources. …”
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Strong Association of Perceived Chronic Stress with Leadership Quality, Work–Privacy Conflict and Quantitative Work Demands: Results of the IMPROVE<i>job</i> Study by Julian Göbel, Lukas Degen, Karen Minder, Monika A. Rieger, Birgitta M. Weltermann

“…The factors associated with lower perceived chronic stress were identified using a multilevel regression model approach. The model showed a significant association with less work–privacy conflict (<i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>β</i> = 0.31), lower quantitative work demands (<i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>β</i> = 0.28), and good leadership quality (<i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>β</i> = −0.22). …”
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It’s Fine If Others Do It Too: Privacy Concerns, Social Influence, and Political Expression on Facebook in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States by Christian Pieter Hoffmann, Shelley Boulianne

“…We use survey data gathered in 2023 from Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States ( n  = 5,936). …”
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Predicting digital contact tracing tool adoption during COVID-19 from the perspective of TAM: The role of trust, fear, privacy, anxiety, and social media by Adi Alsyouf, Ala’a M Al-Momani, Nizar Alsubahi, Abdalwali Lutfi, Khalid Anwer Al-Mugheed, Mohammed Amin Almaiah, Rami J Anshasi, Main Naser Alolayyan, Abdallah Alsaad, Mahmaod Alrawad

“…This study investigates the key determinants of DCT adoption and acceptance by integrating the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with psychological, social, and regulatory factors related to the context of the study. Methods Using a quantitative, cross-sectional design, data were collected from Saudi participants through an online survey and analysed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with SmartPLS4. …”
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A data flow process for confidential data and its application in a health research project. by Samantha S R Crossfield, Kieran Zucker, Paul Baxter, Penny Wright, Jon Fistein, Alex F Markham, Mark Birkin, Adam W Glaser, Geoff Hall

“…However, using healthcare data for secondary purposes raises legal and ethical concerns relating to confidentiality, privacy and data protection rights. …”
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Can synthetic data be a proxy for real clinical trial data? A validation study by Monica Parry, Karolina Kublickiene, Valeria Raparelli, Peter Klimek, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Louise Pilote, Michal Abrahamowicz, Colleen M. Norris, Maria Trinidad Herrero, Khaled El Emam, Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze, Simon Bacon, Jennifer Fishman, Zahra Azizi, Chaoyi Zheng, Lucy Mosquera, Karin Humphries, Khaled El Emam

“…However, data availability remains a challenge due to complex privacy requirements. …”
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Rich Data Versus Quantity of Data in Code Generation AI: A Paradigm Shift for Healthcare by Muthu Ramachandran, Steven Fouracre

“…The paper demonstrates that in sectors where accuracy, auditability, and privacy are paramount, data richness consistently outperforms brute-force scaling strategies. …”
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A Signature-Based Data Security Technique for Energy-Efficient Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks by Min Yoon, Miyoung Jang, Hyeong-Il Kim, Jae-Woo Chang

“…To support privacy-preserving data aggregation and integrity checking, our technique makes use of the additive property of complex numbers. …”
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