Understanding Location Privacy of the Point-of-Interest Aggregate Data via Practical Attacks and Defenses

W Tong, Y Tong, C Xia, J Hua, Q Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Location-based services have significantly affected mobile users' everyday life, and location
privacy has become essential. Some applications (eg, location-based recommendation …

Practical location privacy attacks and defense on point-of-interest aggregates

W Tong, C Xia, J Hua, Q Li… - 2021 IEEE 41st …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Location-based services have significantly affected mobile users' everyday life, and location
privacy is also an essential issue in these services. In some applications (eg, location-based …

Eclipse: Preserving differential location privacy against long-term observation attacks

B Niu, Y Chen, Z Wang, F Li, B Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Aggregation-based location privacy: An information theoretic approach

W Zhang, B Jiang, M Li, R Tandon, Q Liu, H Li - Computers & Security, 2020 - Elsevier
We explore the problem of quantifying and protecting aggregation-based location privacy
and study the privacy-utility tradeoff, which are essential to protect user's location privacy …

A hybrid location privacy protection scheme in big data environment

MR Nosouhi, VVH Pham, S Yu… - … 2017-2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Location privacy has become a significant challenge of big data. Particularly, by the
advantage of big data handling tools availability, huge location data can be managed and …

Location privacy preservation for mobile users in location-based services

G Sun, S Cai, H Yu, S Maharjan, V Chang, X Du… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Because location-based cyber services are increasingly found in mobile applications (eg,
social networking and maps), user location privacy preservation is essential and remains …

Velocity-Aware Geo-Indistinguishability

R Mendes, M Cunha, JP Vilela - … of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Location Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms (LPPMs) have been proposed to mitigate the risks
of privacy disclosure yielded from location sharing. However, due to the nature of this type of …

A geo-indistinguishable location perturbation mechanism for location-based services supporting frequent queries

J Hua, W Tong, F Xu, S Zhong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As location-based services (LBSs) on smartphones become increasingly popular, such
services are causing serious privacy concerns, because many users are unwilling to see …

Location privacy preservation based on continuous queries for location-based services

L Zhang, Y Qian, M Ding, C Ma, J Li… - IEEE INFOCOM 2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, location-based services (LBSs) have become increasingly popular, as they
can greatly facilitate people's daily life. However, LBSs also raise serious concerns that the …

A Closer Look: Evaluating Location Privacy Empirically

L Fan, I Gote - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The breach of users' location privacy can be catastrophic. To provide users with privacy
protections, numerous location privacy methods have been developed in the last two …