TY - GEN
T1 - Location privacy protection through obfuscation-based techniques
AU - Ardagna, C. A.
AU - Cremonini, M.
AU - Damiani, E.
AU - Di Vimercati, S. De Capitani
AU - Samarati, P.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The widespread adoption of mobile communication devices combined with technical improvements of location technologies are fostering the development of a new wave of applications that manage physical positions of individuals to offer location-based services for business, social or informational purposes. As an effect of such innovative services, however, privacy concerns are increasing, calling for more sophisticated solutions for providing users with different and manageable levels of privacy. In this work, we propose a way to express users privacy preferences on location information in a straightforward and intuitive way. Then, based on such location privacy preferences, we discuss a new solution, based on obfuscation techniques, which permits us to achieve, and quantitatively estimate through a metric, different degrees of location privacy.
AB - The widespread adoption of mobile communication devices combined with technical improvements of location technologies are fostering the development of a new wave of applications that manage physical positions of individuals to offer location-based services for business, social or informational purposes. As an effect of such innovative services, however, privacy concerns are increasing, calling for more sophisticated solutions for providing users with different and manageable levels of privacy. In this work, we propose a way to express users privacy preferences on location information in a straightforward and intuitive way. Then, based on such location privacy preferences, we discuss a new solution, based on obfuscation techniques, which permits us to achieve, and quantitatively estimate through a metric, different degrees of location privacy.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=37849032496&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-73538-0_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-73538-0_4
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:37849032496
SN - 9783540735335
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 47
EP - 60
BT - Data and Applications Security XXI - 21st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, Proceedings
A2 - Barker, Steve
A2 - Ahn, Gail-Joon
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 21st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, DBSEC
Y2 - 8 July 2007 through 11 July 2007
ER -