Title :
On the Privacy of Real-World Friend-Finder Services
Author :
Fattori, Aristide ; Reina, Antonio ; Gerino, Andrea ; Mascetti, Sergio
Abstract :
Privacy protection in the deployment of location based services is a hot topic both in CS research and in the development of mobile applications. In this paper we consider a location based service that currently has hundreds of millions of users and we show how we developed a software that is able to discover their exact positions, by only using information publicly disclosed by the service. Our software does not exploit a specific limitation of the considered service. Rather this contribution shows that there is an entire class of services that is subject to the attack we present.
Keywords :
data privacy; mobile computing; security of data; software engineering; CS research; location based services; mobile applications; mobile device; privacy protection; real-world friend-finder services; software development; Androids; Approximation methods; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Privacy; Protocols; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Milan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6068-5
DOI :
10.1109/MDM.2013.48