The offering of anonymity in relational databases has attracted a great deal of attention in the database community during the last decade [4]. Among the different solution appr...
Abstract—Location obfuscation using cloaking regions preserves location anonymity by hiding the true user among a set of other equally likely users. Furthermore, a cloaking regio...
Abstract. Modern mobile phones and PDAs are equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS). Users can access public location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and ask spatial ...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
This paper tackles a major privacy concern in current location-based services where users have to continuously report their locations to the database server in order to obtain the ...
—Countless challenges to preserving a user’s location privacy exist and have become more important than ever before with the proliferation of handheld devices and the pervasive...