In recent years, the privacy issue in Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) has gained a lot of concern. The privacy problem is even more severe in autonomous driving business than the other businesses in VEC such as ordinary navigation. Federated learning (FL), which is a privacy-preserved strategy proposed by Google, has become a hot trend to solve the privacy problem in many fields including VEC. Therefore, we introduce FL into autonomous driving to preserve vehicular privacy by keeping original data in a local vehicle and sharing the training model parameter only with the help of MEC server. Moreover, different from the common assumption of honest MEC server and honest vehicle in former studies, we take the malicious MEC servers and malicious vehicles into account. First, we consider honest-but-curious MEC server and malicious vehicles and propose a traceable identity-based privacy preserving scheme to protect the vehicular message privacy where improved Dijk-Gentry-Halevi-Vaikutanathan (DGHV) algorithm is proposed and a blockchain-based Reputation-based Incentive Autonomous Driving Mechanism (RIADM) is adopted. Further, when the case comes to the non-credibility of both parties where semi-honest MEC server and malicious vehicles are considered, we propose an anonymous identity-based privacy preserving scheme to protect the identity privacy of vehicles with Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP). Based on the simulation of virtual autonomous driving based on real-world road images, it is verified that our proposes scheme can reduce 73.7 % training loss of autonomous driving, increase the accuracy to around 5.55 % while keeps effective privacy of message and identity under the threat of dishonest MEC server and vehicles.

The booming development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has brought new vitality to the construction of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). At the same time, a huge amount of data has been generated due to the gradual development of IoV toward large scale, complex, and diversified. These data are owned by the companies that vehicles belonging to or service providers, such as taxi companies own taxi data. Due to interest and privacy considerations, data owners are not willing to share data, thus a serious data isolated island problem is created, which is detrimental to the development of ITS. Therefore, this article focuses on how to prevent privacy disclosure of vehicles while sharing vehicle data to improve the service. Considering the amount of interactive data and privacy disclosure during data release, vehicle data are abstracted from text form into a graph-structured data form. At the same time, graph differential privacy (DP) together with anonymity protection is proposed innovatively to firmly protect vehicle privacy. Moreover, to solve the high complexity of big data graph-structure transformation, an accelerated nodes and edges combined graph DP (ACGDP) algorithm is proposed. Based on the simulations of real-world data that combine electric and nonelectric taxies, it is verified that our proposed scheme has a tradeoff between information availability and privacy protection. With the graph DP processed data, our proposed scheme reduces the average wasted mileage for charging by 3.87% and achieves a 44.28% increase in drivers’ income. Drivers’ satisfaction of receiving orders and charging preference reaches 68% after the graph-structured data reuse.

The sensitive information of vehicles which is closely related to the safety of transportation makes the privacy problems in the vehicular networks a popular concern. The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to the next phase of intelligence, the Social Internet of Vehicles (SIoV). For social purposes, vehicles may upload captured images with more sensitive information. As a result, the privacy problem is even more serious in SIoV. The exited studies of privacy-preserving methods in vehicular networks mainly consider the spontaneous privacy disclosure. However, the main privacy leakage in real life comes from peer disclosure rather than spontaneous privacy disclosure, which is usually ignored. Therefore, this paper innovatively presents a decentralized scheme for solving the peer disclosure issues in SIoV, which to the best of our knowledge, is the first research in SIoV peer disclosure discussion. A DAG-based mutual supervision algorithm (Dmsv) is designed for mutually distrustful vehicles. It is verified that our proposed algorithm reduces at least 72% multi-dimentional privacy loss of image entropy leakage probability when compared with non-peer disclosure prevention. The decentralized scheme also achieves a relatively low delay of around 24 seconds from transaction generation to network-wide consensus. This paper provides feasibility of applying DAG in a mobile system and provides guidance on how the transportation situation influences the confirmation delay and how to adjust the incentive mechanism according to the transportation situation to maintain robustness.

With the rapid development of wireless communication technology, positioning technology, and modern smart devices, Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) smart vehicles have brought great convenience to human production and life. Meanwhile, privacy and security issues are becoming extremely serious, with serious consequences if sensitive data such as vehicle location and trip patterns are leaked. This paper focuses on the demands for vehicular network security, especially privacy protection and existing privacy-protection techniques, including common cryptography methods and cryptography-based advanced technologies. At the same time, this paper also analyzes the advantages and challenges of these technologies in protecting privacy and network security in the Internet of Vehicles, such as the challenges of computational resource requirements and security efficiency in the implementation process, as well as the complexity of realizing effective privacy protection in the interactions among different entities. Finally, this paper envisions the development of privacy-preserving application scenarios and the prospects for crypotography-based privacy-preserving technologies.