Is hidden safe? Location protection against machine-learning prediction attacks in social networks

X Han, L Wang, W Fan - Mis Quarterly, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
User privacy protection is a vital issue in online social networks (OSNs). Even though users
often intentionally hide their private information in OSNs, adversaries may conduct …

Privacy leakage of location sharing in mobile social networks: Attacks and defense

H Li, H Zhu, S Du, X Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Along with the popularity of mobile social networks (MSNs) is the increasing danger of
privacy breaches due to user location exposures. In this work, we take an initial step towards …

Measurement and control of geo-location privacy on Twitter

L Luceri, D Andreoletti, M Tornatore, T Braun… - Online social networks …, 2020 - Elsevier
The widespread diffusion of Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM) has generated a
huge amount of users' personal data. As this data is often publicly available, users' privacy is …

Privacy threats and protection recommendations for the use of geosocial network data in research

O Kounadi, B Resch, A Petutschnig - Social Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Inference attacks and protection measures are two sides of the same coin. Although the
former aims to reveal information while the latter aims to hide it, they both increase …

Modelling perceived risks to personal privacy from location disclosure on online social networks

FS Alrayes, AI Abdelmoty, WB El-Geresy… - International Journal …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
As users increasingly rely on online social networks for their communication activities,
personal location data processing through such networks poses significant risks to users' …

Check-ins and photos: Spatiotemporal correlation-based location inference attack and defense in location-based social networks

AR Shahid, N Pissinou, SS Iyengar… - 2018 17th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) users' interaction is largely carried through
check-ins and photo sharing. The study of location privacy issues with check-ins has yielded …

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 …

Infringement of tweets geo-location privacy: an approach based on graph convolutional neural networks

L Luceri, D Andreoletti, S Giordano - arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.11206, 2019 - arxiv.org
The tremendous popularity gained by Online Social Networks (OSNs) raises natural
concerns about user privacy in social media platforms. Though users in OSNs can tune their …

P3: Privacy-Preserving Scheme Against Poisoning Attacks in Mobile-Edge Computing

P Zhao, H Huang, X Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged to enable users to offload their location data
into the MEC server, and at the same time, the MEC server executes the location-aware data …

A comprehensive survey on online social networks security and privacy issues: Threats, machine learning‐based solutions, and open challenges

M Bhattacharya, S Roy, S Chattopadhyay… - Security and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few years, online social networks (OSNs) have become an inseparable part of
people's daily lives. Instead of being passive readers, people are now enjoying their role as …