—Social network information is now being used in ways for which it may have not been originally intended. In particular, increased use of smartphones capable of running applicati...
Protecting location information of mobile users in Location Based Services (LBS) is a very important but quite difficult and still largely unsolved problem. Location information h...
In this paper we propose a fundamental approach to perform the class of Nearest Neighbor (NN) queries, the core class of queries used in many of the location-based services, withou...
Existing location-based services provide specialized services to their customers based on the knowledge of their exact locations. With untrustworthy servers, location-based service...
This paper presents PrivacyGrid - a framework for supporting anonymous location-based queries in mobile information delivery systems. The PrivacyGrid framework offers three unique...