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We have users’ privacy when users have an active role to protect their own privacy. In this chapter we review user privacy in communications and in information retrieval.

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    Cryptographic algorithm which requires two separate keys one of which is private and one of which is public. Also known as asymmetric cryptography.

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    Note the parallelism with social spheres [21, 22] and the privacy problems in online social networks when these spheres are put in contact.

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Torra, V. (2017). User’s Privacy. In: Data Privacy: Foundations, New Developments and the Big Data Challenge. Studies in Big Data, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57358-8_4

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