Mobile smartphone users frequently need to search for nearby points of interest from a location based service, but in a way that preserves the privacy of the users' locations...
Femi G. Olumofin, Piotr K. Tysowski, Ian Goldberg,...
We tackle the problem of building privacy-preserving device-tracking systems -- or private methods to assist in the recovery of lost or stolen Internet-connected mobile devices. T...
Thomas Ristenpart, Gabriel Maganis, Arvind Krishna...
—Recent advances in mobile handheld devices have facilitated the ubiquitous availability of location based services. Systems which provide location based services have always bee...
—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...
The locations of base stations are critically important to the viability of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we examine the location privacy problem from both the attack a...
Obfuscation concerns the practice of deliberately degrading the quality of information in some way, so as to protect the privacy of the individual to whom that information refers. ...
Abstract. Current mobile computing systems can automatically sense and communicate detailed data about a person’s location. Location privacy is an urgent research issue because c...
Due to the utilization of location information, geographic ad hoc routing presents superiority in scalability compared with traditional topology-based routing in mobile ad hoc net...
Location privacy is one of the major security problems in a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). By eavesdropping on the transmitted packets, an attacker can keep track of the p...
This paper introduces results of a study into the value of location privacy for individuals using mobile devices. We questioned a sample of over 1200 people from five EU countrie...
Daniel Cvrcek, Marek Kumpost, Vashek Matyas, Georg...