Privacy through the Lens of Data Flows

This talk focuses on user-centric privacy solution by focusing on the data flow between people and organisations.

Nowadays we are living in a highly connected cyber-physical world, and we are increasingly depending on others, including organisations such as online service providers and other people, to live our lives and do businesses. As a result, we are disclosing our personal data with many parties online and in the physical world, leading to privacy concerns and genuine leakages of personal information to wrong hands. In this talk, the speaker will look at the user privacy protection problem from a data flows angle, and introduce his ongoing work on building a computational graph-based model to capture how data flow between people and organisations, in order to support research and development of more user-centric privacy solutions. The work is part of an EPSRC-funded project “PriVELT: PRIvacy-aware personal data management and Value Enhancement for Leisure Travellers” (https://privelt.ac.uk/)

About the Speaker

Prof Shujun Li is a Professor of Cyber Security at the School of Computing, University of Kent in the UK. He is the Director of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), which represents the University of Kent as one of 19 UK government recognized Academic Centers of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACEs-CSR). His research interests are mostly around interdisciplinary topics covering cyber security and privacy, human factors, digital forensics and cyber crime, social media analytics, and AI. He has published over 100 research papers at international journals and conferences, and received three Best Paper Awards (at IIEEK IEVC 2012, HAS 2017 and HICSS 2021) and a Honorable Mention (at ICWSM 2020). He published a monograph on cognitive modelling (Springer 2020), and co-edited four books including Handbook of Digital Forensics of Multimedia Data and Devices (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and IEEE Press 2015). In 2012, he received an ISO/IEC Certificate of Appreciation, for being the lead editor of ISO/IEC 23001-4:2011, the 2nd edition of the MPEG RVC (Reconfigurable Video Coding) standard. He is currently on the editorial boards of a number of international journals, and has been on the organizing or technical program committees of over 100 international conferences and workshops. He is a Fellow of BCS, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of ACM. He is a Vice President and Founding Co-Director of the ABCP (Association of British Chinese Professors). More about his research and professional activities can be found at his personal website www.hooklee.com