There are a number of ‘directories’ or ‘rankings’ of governmental approaches to civil society privacy, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression online. While these can be useful […]

Sequential data model useful information about individuals, such as their visited locations, purchased products, or genomic information. Thus, sequential data are often collected from individuals and […]

This project will investigate the role of alternative online subcultures in the promotion of violence, through a data-driven comparative analysis of content across several (Chan) platforms. […]

Current research efforts on online harms (abuse, hate, dis/misinformation, cyberbullying, revenge pornography, etc.) have focused on examining single platforms (e.g., Twitter or Facebook) and/or isolating known […]

With the widespread use of resource-constrained devices such as RFID sensors, IoT, etc. the area of lightweight cryptography has become increasingly important. For evidence we can […]

The aim of this project is to create the building blocks for AI-based systems to be able to learn and reason about the privacy norms users […]

While violent crime and theft has been decreasing since the mid-90’s, fraud has now become the most common type of crime in the UK at 3.7 […]

Personality information can be used as part of adversarial manipulation of an individual, making them more vulnerable to attacks on their reasoning process – whether the […]

Several strategies are routinely used by social media companies, governments, and online communities to mitigate online harms. These include setting community standards, removing content that violates […]

The aim will be to investigate how effectively and efficiently anonymous communication networks (ACN) can act as “add-ons” between applications that do not have privacy built-in […]

A philosophical analysis of online manipulation on social media platforms focusing on the disruption of democratic processes. One of the most interesting phenomena in current international […]

This empirical project aims to analyse the roles of PETs, from both legal and regulatory perspectives, in protecting fundamental rights and freedoms, such as data protection […]