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GIS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A peer-to-peer spatial cloaking algorithm for anonymous location-based service
This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desir...
Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xuan Liu
ICDE
2005
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Protection of Location Privacy using Dummies for Location-based Services
Recently, highly accurate positioning devices enable us to provide various types of location-based services. On the other hand, because position data obtained by such devices incl...
Hidetoshi Kido, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Tetsuji Satoh
SAC
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Detecting identifiable areas in mobile environments
Location-based applications and services are getting increasingly important for mobile users. They take into account a mobile user's current location and provide a location-d...
Jörg Roth
MDM
2007
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Hiding Location Information from Location-Based Services
—In many existing location-based services, a service provider becomes aware of the location of its customers and can, maybe inadvertently, leak this information to unauthorized e...
Urs Hengartner
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A Distributed k-Anonymity Protocol for Location Privacy
To benefit from a location-based service, a person must reveal her location to the service. However, knowing the person’s location might allow the service to re-identify the pe...
Ge Zhong, Urs Hengartner