Privacy through Uncertainty in Location-Based Services

Author

Merrill, Stephen ; Basalp, Nilgun ; Biskup, Joachim ; Buchmann, Erik ; Clifton, C. ; Kuijpers, Bart ; Othman, Walied ; Savas, Erkay

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2013

fDate

3-6 June 2013

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

72

Abstract

Location-Based Services (LBS) are becoming more prevalent. While there are many benefits, there are also real privacy risks. People are unwilling to give up the benefits - but can we reduce privacy risks without giving up on LBS entirely? This paper explores the possibility of introducing uncertainty into location information when using an LBS, so as to reduce privacy risk while maintaining good quality of service. This paper also explores the current uses of uncertainty information in a selection of mobile applications.

Keywords

data privacy; mobile computing; quality of service; risk management; security of data; LBS; location-based services; privacy risk reduction; privacy-through-uncertainty; quality-of-service; Data privacy; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Mobile radio mobility management; Privacy; Trajectory; Uncertainty; Location-Based Services; Privacy; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Milan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6068-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MDM.2013.71

Filename

6569065