Location privacy-preserving mechanisms in location-based services: A comprehensive survey

H Jiang, J Li, P Zhao, F Zeng, Z Xiao… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Location-based services (LBSs) provide enhanced functionality and convenience of
ubiquitous computing, but they open up new vulnerabilities that can be utilized to violate the …

Anonymization: The imperfect science of using data while preserving privacy

A Gadotti, L Rocher, F Houssiau, AM Creţu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Information about us, our actions, and our preferences is created at scale through surveys or
scientific studies or as a result of our interaction with digital devices such as smartphones …

Knock knock, who's there? Membership inference on aggregate location data

A Pyrgelis, C Troncoso, E De Cristofaro - arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.06145, 2017 - arxiv.org
Aggregate location data is often used to support smart services and applications, eg,
generating live traffic maps or predicting visits to businesses. In this paper, we present the …

Quantifying location privacy

R Shokri, G Theodorakopoulos… - … IEEE symposium on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is a well-known fact that the progress of personal communication devices leads to serious
concerns about privacy in general, and location privacy in particular. As a response to these …

Protecting location privacy: optimal strategy against localization attacks

R Shokri, G Theodorakopoulos, C Troncoso… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
The mainstream approach to protecting the location-privacy of mobile users in location-
based services (LBSs) is to alter the users' actual locations in order to reduce the location …

Synthesizing plausible privacy-preserving location traces

V Bindschaedler, R Shokri - 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camouflaging user's actual location with fakes is a prevalent obfuscation technique for
protecting location privacy. We show that the protection mechanisms based on the existing …

Location privacy protection for smartphone users

K Fawaz, KG Shin - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSAC Conference …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
As smartphones are increasingly used to run apps that provide users with location-based
services, the users' location privacy has become a major concern. Existing solutions to this …

Privacy vulnerability of published anonymous mobility traces

CYT Ma, DKY Yau, NK Yip, NSV Rao - Proceedings of the sixteenth …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Mobility traces of people and vehicles have been collected and published to assist the
design and evaluation of mobilee networks, such as large-scale urban sensing networks …

Hiding in the mobile crowd: Locationprivacy through collaboration

R Shokri, G Theodorakopoulos… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Location-aware smartphones support various location-based services (LBSs): users query
the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. However, such queries give …

ILLIA: Enabling -Anonymity-Based Privacy Preserving Against Location Injection Attacks in Continuous LBS Queries

P Zhao, J Li, F Zeng, F Xiao, C Wang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing popularity of location-based services (LBSs), it is of paramount
importance to preserve one's location privacy. The commonly used location privacy …