With the wide use of GPS enabled devices and Location-Based Services, location privacy
has become an increasingly worrying challenge to our community. Existing approaches …

Concerns on location privacy frequently arise with the rapid development of GPS enabled
devices and location-based applications. While spatial transformation techniques such as …

Location privacy continues to attract significant attentions in recent years, fueled by the rapid
growth of locationbased services (LBSs) and smart mobile devices. Location obfuscation …

Since the dummy-based method can provide precise query results without any requirement
for a third party or key sharing, it has been widely used to protect the user's location privacy …

Mechanisms built upon geo-indistinguishability render location privacy, where a user can
submit obfuscated locations to Location-Based Service providers but still be able to correctly …

The growing popularity of location-based systems, allowing unknown/untrusted servers to
easily collect huge amounts of information regarding users' location, has recently started …

With the increasing popularity of hand-held devices, location-based applications and
services have access to accurate and real-time location information, raising serious privacy …

With the wide adoption of handheld devices (eg smartphones, tablets) a large number of
location-based services (also called LBSs) have flourished providing mobile users with real …

Location privacy-preserving mechanisms (LPPMs) have been extensively studied for
protecting a user's location at each time point or a sequence of locations with different …

Sharing of location data enables numerous exciting applications, such as location-based
queries, location-based social recommendations, monitoring of traffic and air pollution …