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GIS
2006
ACM
13 years 4 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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13 years 10 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
13 years 10 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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13 years 10 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
13 years 11 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