Fine-Grained Cloaking of Sensitive Positions in Location-Sharing Applications
Abstract
Geosocial networking applications magnify the concern for location privacy because a user's position can be disclosed to diverse untrusted parties. The Privacy Preserving Obfuscation Environment (Probe) framework supports semantic-location cloaking to protect this information.
Keywords
location-based services, cloaked region, sensing, sensitive semantic locations, large-scale opportunistic sensing, pervasive computing, location privacy, privacy personalization, privacy profile
Date of this Version
2011
DOI
10.1109/MPRV.2011.18
Comments
IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, October-December 2011 (vol. 10 no. 4) pp. 64-72