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The emergence of location-aware mobile social networking applications (SNAs) has gained considerable prominence in ubiquitous computing. However, the weak designs of privacy protection result in more potential risks that users have to face. This paper presents a deep insight into the designs of privacy protection, especially from the perspective of location privacy. Three main potential risks and...
Privacy and security are two important issues in vehicular networks. Users wish to maintain location privacy and anonymity, meaning the identity, location/direction of move of their vehicles remains unknown to everybody with possible exception law enforcement authorities responsible by law to know and maintain such private information. In this paper, we propose a Pre-broadcast based Time Efficient...
The advances in wireless communication and positioning technology have made it possible to collect large volumes of personal location data. While such data are useful to many organizations, making them public accessible is generally prohibited, because location data may imply sensitive private information. This paper investigates the challenges of publishing location data while preserving the location...
Mobile communication devices have rapidly proliferated in all developed countries. Most of these devices can determine their location, and their computation and storage capacities have greatly increased in recent years. Therefore, location-based services (LBS) will become cornerstones of the new information society. Most of the time, LBS are provided by trusted companies such as telecommunications...
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