We address issues related to privacy protection in location-based services (LBSs). Most
existing privacy-preserving LBS techniques either require a trusted third-party (anonymizer) …

We address issues related to privacy protection in location-based services (LBS). Most
existing research in this field either requires a trusted third-party (anonymizer) or uses …

Mobile devices with global positioning capabilities (eg, GPS) allow users to ask queries
relative to their present location. Since certain queries may be privacy-sensitive, it is …

Location-Based Services (LBSs) have been gaining popularity due to a wide range of
interesting and important applications being developed. However, the users availing such …

With the increasing popularity of location-based services (LBSs), there is a corresponding
increase in the potential for location privacy leakage. Existing solutions generally introduce …

With the proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, location-based
services are becoming increasingly popular. LBSs, albeit useful and convenient, pose a …

Location-based service (LBS) has gained increasing popularity recently, but protecting
users' privacy in LBS remains challenging. Depending on whether a trusted third party (TTP) …

Location-based Services are emerging as popular applications in pervasive computing.
Spatial k-anonymity is used in Location-based Services to protect privacy, by hiding the …

Protecting privacy in Location-based services (LBSs) has been one of the major concerns
over the last few years. Users' queries can reveal sensitive information to LBSs, thus giving …

Location privacy is extensively studied in the context of location-based services (LBSs).
Typically, users are assigned a location privacy profile and the precise locations are cloaked …