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Decentralized identifiers

November 7, 2023 by Tamara Bonaci

Today, most of us have more accounts with corresponding usernames and passwords than we can count. Online banking, shopping, streaming, and social media, among other things, require the user to authenticate, or prove, their identity to utilize the provided service. Keeping track of a multitude of accounts becomes burdensome, and many of us turn toward the usage of weak or … [Read more...] about Decentralized identifiers

Privacy and location-based services

June 28, 2021 by Baemin Chung; Anna Ptasznik; David Wu; Tamara Bonaci

Location-based services (LBSs) use geographic information to provide a variety of benefits to users—most ubiquitously, through users’ mobile devices (phones and smart wearables). While such information offers value—through navigation apps, for example—it contains troves of personal data that can be exploited against users. For more about this article see link … [Read more...] about Privacy and location-based services

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