Preserving location privacy in geosocial applications

KPN Puttaswamy, S Wang, T Steinbauer… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using geosocial applications, such as FourSquare, millions of people interact with their
surroundings through their friends and their recommendations. Without adequate privacy …

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 …

Home location protection in mobile social networks: a community based method (short paper)

B Liu, W Zhou, S Yu, K Wang, Y Wang, Y Xiang… - … Security Practice and …, 2017 - Springer
Location privacy has drawn much attention among mobile social network users, as the geo-
location information can be used by the adversaries to launch localization attacks which …

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 …

Publish me and protect me: Personalized and flexible location privacy protection in mobile social networks

Y Wu, H Peng, X Zhang, H Chen… - 2015 IEEE 23rd …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing proliferation of the Mobile Social Networks (MSN) and the Location
Based Service (LBS), location privacy has attracted broad attention in recent years. Most …

Enabling location k-anonymity in social networks

F Buccafurri, V De Angelis, MF Idone… - … Social Networks in …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Location-based services (LBSs) are services provided on the basis of the position of users.
There are different types of LBSs and different possible scenarios, but, in any case, serious …

I know where you all are! exploiting mobile social apps for large-scale location privacy probing

S Zhao, X Luo, B Bai, X Ma, W Zou, X Qiu… - Information Security and …, 2016 - Springer
Mobile social apps have been changing the way people interact with each other in the
physical world. To help people extend their social networks, Location-Based Social Network …

Toward addressing location privacy issues: new affiliations with social and location attributes

K Vgena, A Kitsiou, C Kalloniatis, D Kavroudakis… - Future Internet, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, location-sharing applications (LSA) within social media enable users to share
their location information at different levels of precision. Users on their side are willing to …

In-network trajectory privacy preservation

M Guo, X Jin, N Pissinou, S Zanlongo… - ACM Computing …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in mobile device, wireless networking, and positional technologies have
helped location-aware applications become pervasive. However, location trajectory privacy …

Privacy-preserving inference of social relationships from location data: A vision paper

C Shahabi, L Fan, L Nocera, L Xiong, M Li - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Social relationships between people, eg, whether they are friends with each other, can be
inferred by observing their behaviors in the real world. Thanks to the popularity of GPS …