基于交互模式的隐私保护方法研究

Privacy Protection through Appropriate Interaction Patterns

In network environments, before meaningful interactions can begin, trust may need to be established between two interactive entities in which an entity may ask the other to provide some information involving privacy. Consequently, privacy protection and trust establishment become important in network interactions. In order to protect privacy while facilitating effective interactions, we propose a trust based privacy protection method. Our main contributions in this paper are as follows: (1) We introduce a novel concept of k sensitive privacy as a measure to assess the potential threat of inferring privacy; (2) According to trust and k sensitive privacy evaluation, our proposed method can choose appropriate interaction patterns with lower degree of inferring privacy threat; (3) By considering interaction patterns for privacy protection, our proposed method can overcome the shortcomings of some current privacy protection methods which may result in low interaction success rate. Simulation results show that our method can achieve effective interactions with less privacy loss.