Protecting user privacy: Obfuscating discriminative spatio-temporal footprints

JD Park, E Seglem, E Lin, A Züfle - Proceedings of the 1st ACM …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, applications that collect and store location data have become ubiquitous,
allowing users to engage in a variety of interactions with other users and services in their …

On privacy in spatio-temporal data: User identification using microblog data

E Seglem, A Züfle, J Stutzki, F Borutta… - Advances in Spatial and …, 2017 - Springer
Location data is among the most sensitive data regarding the privacy of the observed users.
To collect location data, mobile phones and other mobile devices constantly track their …

Locborg: Hiding social media user location while maintaining online persona

V Zakhary, C Sahin, T Georgiou… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Social media streams analysis can reveal the characteristics of people who engage with or
write about different topics. Recent works show that it is possible to reveal sensitive …

Quantifying the effect of co-location information on location privacy

AM Olteanu, K Huguenin, R Shokri… - … Symposium, PETS 2014 …, 2014 - Springer
Mobile users increasingly report their co-locations with other users, in addition to revealing
their locations to online services. For instance, they tag the names of the friends they are …

" I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints." Revealing the Demographics of Location Data

CJ Riederer, S Zimmeck, C Phanord… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Location data are routinely available to a plethora of mobile apps and third party web
services. The resulting datasets are increasingly available to advertisers for targeting and …

Inspect What Your Location History Reveals About You: Raising user awareness on privacy threats associated with disclosing his location data

A Boutet, S Gambs - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Location is one of the most extensively collected personal data on mobile by applications
and third-party services. However, how the location of users is actually processed in practice …

Geo-privacy beyond coordinates

G McKenzie, K Janowicz, D Seidl - Geospatial data in a changing world …, 2016 - Springer
The desire to share one's location with friends and family or to use location information for
navigation and recommendations services is often overshadowed by the need to preserve …

Anonymizing user location and profile information for privacy-aware mobile services

M Mano, Y Ishikawa - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Due to the growing use of mobile devices, location-based services have become popular. A
location service often requires the user's exact location to provide appropriate services and …

Analyzing your location data with provable privacy guarantees

A Machanavajjhala, X He - Handbook of Mobile Data Privacy, 2018 - Springer
The ubiquity of smartphones and wearable devices coupled with the ability to sense
locations through these devices has brought location privacy into the forefront of public …

Exploring the effectiveness of geomasking techniques for protecting the geoprivacy of Twitter users

S Gao, J Rao, X Liu, Y Kang, Q Huang… - Journal of Spatial …, 2019 - josis.org
With the ubiquitous use of location-based services, large-scale individual-level location data
has been widely collected through location-awareness devices. Geoprivacy concerns arise …