Publications

2026
The adverse effects of omitting records in differential privacy: how sampling and suppression degrade the privacy-utility tradeoff


Miranda-Pascual, À., Parra-Arnau, J., Strufe, T.
USENIX Security Symposium


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2025
Balancing privacy and utility in correlated data: a study of bayesian differential privacy


Lange, M., Guerra-Balboa, P., Parra-Arnau, J., Strufe, T.
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)


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2025
Anonymization techniques for behavioral biometric data: A survey


Hanisch, S.*, Arias-Cabarcos, P., Parra-Arnau, J., Strufe, T.
ACM Computing Surveys


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2025
Uncoordinated syntactic privacy: a new metric for multiple, independent data publishing


Tobar Nicolau, A., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J., Torra, V.
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security


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2024
An overview of proposals towards the privacy-preserving publication of trajectory data


Miranda Pascual, À., Guerra-Balboa, P., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J., Strufe, T.
International Journal of Information Security


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2024
Link inference attacks in vertical federated graph learning


Zari, O., Xu, C., Parra-Arnau, J., Ünsal, A, Önen, M.
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)


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2024
Privacy protection against user profiling through optimal data generalization


Gil, C., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J.
Computers & Security


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2024
m-Eligibility with minimum counterfeits and deletions for privacy protection in continuous data publishing


Tobar Nicolau, A., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J., Pallarès, E.
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security


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2024
Probabilistic parallel composition theorems for differential privacy


Miranda-Pascual, À., Parra-Arnau, J., Strufe, T.
IEEE CSF Workshop on Security, Privacy and Information Theory


2024
Node injection link stealing attack


Zari, O., Önen, M., Parra-Arnau, J., Ünsal, A.
Privacy in Statistical Databases (PSD)


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2024
On the necessity of counterfeits and deletions for continuous data publishing


Tobar Nicolau, A., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J.
Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI)


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2024
Composition in differential privacy for general granularity notions


Guerra-Balboa, P., Miranda Pascual, À., Parra-Arnau, J., Strufe, T.
Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)


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2024
A taxonomy of syntactic anonymization algorithms for continuous data publishing


Tobar Nicolau, A., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J.
IEEE Access


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2023
Privacy-centered authentication: A new framework and analysis


Robles-González, A., Arias-Cabarcos, P., Parra-Arnau, J.
Computers & Security


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2023
Label-aware aggregation for improved federated learning


Khalil, A., Wainakh, A., Zimmer, E., Parra-Arnau, J., Fernández Anta, A., Meuser, T., Steinmetz, R.
International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing


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2023
SoK: Differentially private publication of trajectory data


Miranda Pascual, À., Guerra-Balboa, P., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J., Strufe, T.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)


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2023
Analysis and prevention of averaging attacks against obfuscation protocols


Becher, K.*, Lagodzinski, G., Parra-Arnau, J., Strufe, T.
International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS)


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2023
On the number of counterfeits and deletions to enforce m-eligibility in continuous data publishing


Tobar Nicolau, A., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J.
Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI)


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2022
On the privacy-utility trade-off in differentially private hierarchical text classification


Wunderlich, D., Bernau, D.*, Parra-Arnau, J., Aldà, F., Strufe, T.
Applied Sciences


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2022
Publishing trajectories: a study on privacy protection


Guerra-Balboa, P., Miranda Pascual, À., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J., Strufe, T.
Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información


2022
Membership inference attack against principal component analysis


Zari, O.*, Parra-Arnau, J., Ünsal, A., Strufe, T., Önen, M.
Privacy in Statistical Databases (PSD)


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2022
a,m-warden: A syntactic privacy notion for continuous data publishing against probabilistic attacks


Tobar Nicolau, A., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J.
Privacy in Statistical Databases (PSD)

2021
Differentially private publication of database streams via hybrid video coding


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Strufe, T., Domingo-Ferrer, J.
Knowledge-Based Systems


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2021
Anonymizing trajectory data: limitations and opportunities


Guerra-Balboa, P., Miranda Pascual, À., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J., Strufe, T.
AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence


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2021
Enhancing challenge-based collaborative intrusion detection against insider attacks using spatial correlation


Li, W., Meng, W.*, Parra-Arnau, J., Raymond Choo, K. K.
IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing


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2020
Differentially private data publishing via cross-moment microaggregation


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Domingo-Ferrer, J., Soria-Comas, J.
Information Fusion


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2020
A LINDDUN-based framework for privacy threat analysis on identification and authentication processes


Robles-González, A., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J.
Computers & Security


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2020
The fast MDAV algorithm: Algebraic and algorithmic computational strategies for k-anonymous microaggregation


Rodríguez-Hoyos, A., Estrada-Jiménez, J., Rebollo-Monedero, D., Mezher, A. M., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J.*
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence


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2020
On the rationale of KL divergence as a measure of the privacy of user profiles


Rebollo-Monedero, D., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J.
ITG Workshop on IT Security


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2019
On the regulation of personal data distribution in online advertising platforms


Estrada-Jiménez, J., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Rodríguez-Hoyos, A., Forné, J.
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence


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2019
An adversarial-risk-analysis approach to counterterrorist online surveillance


Gil, C., Parra-Arnau, J.*
Sensors


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2019
Measuring online tracking and privacy risks on Ecuadorian websites


Estrada-Jiménez, J.*, Rodríguez-Hoyos, A., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J.
IEEE Fourth Ecuador Technical Chapters Meeting


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2018
On the cost-effectiveness of mass surveillance


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Castelluccia, C.
IEEE Access


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2018
Optimized, direct sale of privacy in personal-data marketplaces


Parra-Arnau, J.*
Information Sciences


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2018
PrivacySearch: an end-user and query generalization tool for privacy enhancement in Web search


Rodrigo-Ginés, F. J., Parra-Arnau, J., Meng, W., Wang, Y.*
International Conference on Network and System Security


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2018
Fine-grained control over tracking to support the ad-based Web economy


Achara, J. P., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Castelluccia, C.
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology


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2018
Does k-anonymous microaggregation affect machine-learned macrotrends?


Rodríguez-Hoyos, A., Estrada-Jiménez, J., Rebollo-Monedero, D.*, Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J.
IEEE Access


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2018
Digital hyper-transparency: leading e-government against privacy


Rodríguez-Hoyos, A., Estrada-Jiménez, J.*, Parra-Arnau, J., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Forné, J.
International Conference on E-Business and E-Government


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2017
Shall I post this now? Optimized, delay-based privacy protection in social networks


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Gómez-Mármol, F., Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.
Knowledge & Information Systems


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2017
Online advertising: analysis of privacy threats and protection approaches


Estrada-Jiménez, J., Parra-Arnau, J., Rodríguez-Hoyos, A., Forné, J.*
Computer Communications


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2017
Pay-per-tracking: a collaborative masking model for web browsing


Parra-Arnau, J.*
Information Sciences


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2017
MyAdChoices: bringing transparency and control to online advertising


Parra-Arnau, J., Achara, J.*, Castelluccia, C.
ACM Transactions on the Web


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2016
A tool for the control of privacy over Web tracking


Prasad Achara, J., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Castelluccia, C.
Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información


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2016
MyTrackingChoices: reconciling privacy and economy


Castelluccia, C.*, Parra-Arnau, J., Prasad Achara, J.
Internet Privacy Engineering Network Workshop


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2016
MyTrackingChoices: pacifying the ad-block war by enforcing user privacy preferences


Achara, J.*, Parra-Arnau, J., Castelluccia, C.
Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS)


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2015
Enhancing entropy-based privacy in user mobility profiling scenarios


Rodriguez-Carrion, A.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J., Campo, C., Garcia Rubio, C., Parra-Arnau, J., Das, S. K.
Entropy


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2015
On content-based recommendation and user privacy in social-tagging systems


Puglisi, S., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D.
Computer Standards & Interfaces


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2015
Dataveillance and the false-positive paradox


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Castelluccia, C.
International Workshop on Privacy and Inference


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2015
Mouse tracking technologies for the automated, remote diagnosis of mental-health disorders


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Castelluccia, C.
Privaski Workshop


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2015
Privacy-enhancing technologies and metrics in personalized information systems


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.
Advanced Research in Data Privacy


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2015
Privacy in vehicular ad-hoc networks


Serna-Olvera, J. M.*, Morales Pacheco, R. A., Parra-Arnau, J., Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.
Privacy in a Digital, Networked World


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2014
Optimal forgery and suppression of ratings for privacy enhancement in recommendation systems


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.
Entropy


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2014
Evaluation of a query-obfuscation mechanism for the privacy protection of user profiles


Estrada-Jiménez, J., Rodríguez-Hoyos, A., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J.
Network Protocols and Algorithms
(Not-JCR)


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2014
Privacy-preserving enhanced collaborative tagging


Parra-Arnau, J., Perego, A., Ferrari, A.*, Forné, J., Rebollo-Monedero, D.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering


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2014
On collaborative anonymous communications in lossy networks


Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.*, Pallarès, E., Parra-Arnau, J., Tripp Barba, C., Urquiza, L., Aguilar Igartua, M.
Security and Communication Networks


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2014
Measuring the privacy of user profiles in personalized information systems


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.
Future Generation Computer Systems


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2014
Optimizing the design parameters of threshold pool mixes for anonymity and delay


Rebollo-Monedero, D.*, Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J., Diaz, C.
Computer Networks


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2014
Data-perturbative, privacy-enhancing mechanisms for personalized recommendation systems


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.
PRINCESS Workshop - Quantitative Information Flow Day


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2013
A criterion for the measurement of the privacy of user profiles


Rebollo-Monedero, D., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J.
Information Tokyo Journal


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2013
On the measurement of privacy as an attacker’s estimation error


Rebollo-Monedero, D., Parra-Arnau, J., Diaz, C., Forné, J.*
International Journal of Information Security


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2013
A collaborative protocol for anonymous reporting in vehicular ad hoc networks


Tripp Barba, C., Urquiza, L., Aguilar Igartua, M., Parra-Arnau, J., Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.*, Pallarès, E.
Computer Standards & Interfaces


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2013
A modification of the Lloyd algorithm for k-anonymous quantization


Rebollo-Monedero, D.*, Forné, J., Esteve Pallarès, Parra-Arnau, J.
Information Sciences


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2013
Evaluation of the privacy of user profiles through a web-browser add-on


Estrada-Jiménez, J., Rodríguez-Hoyos, A., Parra-Arnau, J.*, Forné, J., Rebollo-Monedero, D.
Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática


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2012
A privacy-protecting architecture for recommendation systems via the suppression of ratings


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné
International Journal of Security and Its Applications (Not-JCR)


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2012
Privacy protection of user profiles in personalized information systems


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.
Forum PhD Research Information and Communication Technologies


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2012
Optimal tag suppression for privacy protection in the semantic web


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J., Muñoz, J. L., Esparza, O.
Data & Knowledge Engineering


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2011
A privacy-protecting architecture for collaborative filtering via forgery and suppression of ratings


Parra-Arnau, J.*, Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.
International Workshop on Data Privacy Management


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2011
An information-theoretic privacy criterion for query forgery in information retrieval


Rebollo-Monedero, D., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J.*
International Conference on Security Technology


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2010
A privacy-preserving architecture for the semantic web based on tag suppression


Parra-Arnau, J., Rebollo-Monedero, D., Forné, J.*
International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business


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2010
An information-theoretic criterion of privacy for the generation of bogus queries


Rebollo-Monedero, D., Parra-Arnau, J., Forné, J.*
Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información


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2009
PKIX certificate status in hybrid MANETs


Muñoz, J. L.*, Esparza, O., Gañán, C., Parra-Arnau, J.
Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practice Series


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2009
A new criterion for the estimation of certificate-status information in MANET


Muñoz, J. L.*, Parra-Arnau, J., Gañán, C., Jáimez, M.
Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática


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2009
A mechanism to avoid code-passing collusion attacks


Jaimez, M.; Esparza, O.*; Gañán, C.; Parra-Arnau, J.
Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática


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