Trends and research directions for privacy preserving approaches on the cloud

With advancements in hardware and software capabilities, cloud computing has evolved into a widely utilized paradigm for pay per use and robust computation. An unparalleled repository of user sensitive data that resides on the cloud poses severe threat to the privacy of individuals. Users authenticate, store and perform computations on their data using cloud services. From the cloud's perspective, it gathers additional user data via ubiquitous...